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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... bodies for anatomy in Britain , public dissection was regularly carried out on the bodies of murderers , and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the well - known practices of Burke and Hare . This book tells the scandalous story of how ...
... body , which is roughly sewn together by an underling . It has served its purpose as a piece of event anatomy . What ... bodies of murderers , which were the only ones made legally available to medical men until 1832. In performing those ...
... bodies and care in their disposal . And when medical men work on the dead , they do so in this knowl- edge . The human body , whole or in parts , is never just an object like any other , even in a room in which it will be dismembered ...
... body to von Hagens , though for what exact purpose is unclear . Perhaps he thought he would be preserved in one piece and displayed , like the hyper - real bodies von Hagens exhibits around the world , for which he is justifiably famous ...
... body parts were being removed from bodies lying in the Glebe Morgue and that people were unknowingly burying their relatives incomplete . In addition , at that morgue human remains were unlawfully subjected to brutal forensic ...