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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... William Clift . William Burke and William Hare , 1828 , by D. M'Nee . Elizabeth Ross , 1832 , by William Clift . The Persevering Surgeon , date unknown , by Thomas Rowlandson . The Dissecting Room , date unknown , by Thomas Rowlandson ...
... William Lodewyk Crowther , date unknown , by J. W. Beattie . Sir William Henry Flower , date unknown , by Elliott and Fry . Studio photograph of Truganini , William Lanne and Bessie Clark , August 1866 , by J. W. Beattie after C. A. ...
... Welch , Mary McLauchlan , William Lanney and Truganini — have been named in different ways elsewhere . For consistency , they appear here in this form throughout . INTRODUCTION PERFORMING ANATOMY H ERE WE SIT , IN THE xiv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
... William Burke and William Hare , who are notoriously credited with causing anatomy to be regulated in the first place in 1832 , soon after it was discovered they had been murdering people to sell their bodies to an 2 HUMAN REMAINS.
... William Hogarth , in the eighteenth century , attended the dissection of a pregnant woman and was ' amazingly pleased ' . 10 And science is performed in artful ways : anatomy as ceremony , ritual , exemplary punishment , and staged ...