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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Dissection and Its Histories Helen Patricia MacDonald. For Patrick and Anna CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction : Performing Anatomy Chapter.
Dissection and Its Histories Helen Patricia MacDonald. CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction : Performing Anatomy Chapter 1 : Companions with the Dead Chapter 2 : Dissecting Mary McLauchlan Chapter 3 : Interlude ...
... , 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.
... performed such things for an audience like this one.1 His words made us feel it was our right to watch him carve up ... performing those dissections , surgeons were acting as secondary executioners of the law . Von Hagens is experienced ...
... perform a dissection , he chose his words carefully in naming what he would do to Peter Meiss . He advertised the ... performed on murderers in London ) . The autopsy , von Hagens said , would be carried out ' purely to ascertain the ...