Human Remains: Dissection and Its HistoriesYale University Press, 2006 M01 1 - 220 páginas Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularlyand legallycarried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders committed by Burke and Hare to supply dissection subjects to Dr. Robert Knox, the anatomist. This book tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before the use of human remains was regulated. Helen MacDonald looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemens Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. Not only convicted murderers, but also Aborigines and the unfortunate poor who died in hospitals were routinely turned over to the surgeons. This sensitive but searing account shows how abuses happen even within the conventions adopted by civilized societies. It reveals how, from Burke and Hare to todays televised dissections by German anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens, some peoples bodies become other peoples entertainment. |
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... Museum , shared her knowledge and aspects of the Museum's collection with me . Chris Briggs , from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology , also at the University of Melbourne , talked to me about the process of death in a language ...
... Museum , Royal College of Surgeons of England and Tina Craig , Deputy Head of the College Library ; Beverley Emery at the Royal Anthropologial Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ; librarians at the British Scottish Records Office in ...
... Museum of Fine Arts ) ; librarians at the University of Tasmania ; and Jacqui Ward at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . I have appreciated conversations with Caroline von Oppeln , the late Geoffrey Stilwell , Nicola Goc , Alison ...
... museum displays . In drawing a line between science and art , the rich history of these per- formances is lost . The past becomes instead little more than a promotional tool in the proclamation that von Hagens is performing the first ...
... museums . All of which was as much a social as it was a scientific matter . When news of these activities with the dead leaked out of the rooms that were meant to contain it , the resulting scandal was captured in letters , diaries ...