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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... hands and instruments . With the assistance of knives , a hacksaw and what seems to be a soup ladle ( for removing bodily fluids ) , he gradually reduces a man to a shell . At one point the knife slices through the. I III.
... hand , and von Hagens's highly publicised activities did not help matters at all . By situating the subjects of dissections at the centre of the narrative , this book differs significantly from most studies about dissection and ...
... hands . Those who went to watch the performance were conscious of being judged by many others as voyeurs . Some may have taken comfort in the thought that Meiss left his body to von Hagens . Just as well , though , that he was a man and ...
... hands and plunged into Peter Meiss's thorax to lift out his heart and lungs , people cheered . Those who had come to witness science rather than art also experienced dis- appointments . Von Hagens , they charged , appeared to be out of ...
... hands on ' in this way to learn their craft . There are , indeed , compelling reasons to dissect the dead . However , the focus of this book is different . It explores dissecting as a cultural activity , rather than the foundational ...