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.
... reveals the historical roots of behaviour and attitudes that , recent scandals reveal , are also present in the twenty - first century . In this way these histories contribute to urgent ongoing debates about the use and abuse of human ...
... revealed that he was speaking about the last public dis- sections performed on murderers in London ) . The autopsy , von Hagens said , would be carried out ' purely to ascertain the cause of death ' and ' find any abnormalities'.3 That ...
... reveal . Cutting into and dismembering human beings is a particularly confronting kind of work . Those who dissect the dead learn to distance themselves from their sub- jects to reduce the unease dissecting can provoke . Medical ...
... reveal something about the societies in which such uses of the human body have been made . From von Hagens's dramatic ... revealed how particular groups of people ( those convicted of crimes , the poor , women and ' native ' peoples ) ...