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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... by civilised societies . It reveals how - from Burke and Hare to today's public performances by Dr Gunther von Hagens - some people's bodies become other people's entertainment . Human Remains This One LWXF - QJQ - XNW8 HUMAN. HUMAN.
... become public knowledge , they sought to contain the resulting furore by speaking about dissecting in ways that would make it more socially acceptable , pointing to the many benefits that accrued to humankind through their work ...
... become evident when we look at more cases that can only be described as scandalous , many medical personnel have gradually developed an unspoken consensus that they have a right to use the dead for what they consider to be the benefit ...
... becomes instead little more than a promotional tool in the proclamation that von Hagens is performing the first public autopsy in 170 years . His staff even bring Jack the Ripper into the story . Journalists , too , make shallow use of ...
... becomes less recognisably human . Then it becomes safe to see . The cadaver's capacity to disrupt the proceedings fades , until the body being dissected is reduced to some- thing ' not really ... human ' at all , ' some kind of lesser ...