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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... 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 . In anatomising Meiss instead , von Hagens broke British law , for such ...
... They note that the plants at which they are processed are located in remote places thought to lack ethical credentials where human remains are concerned . One is in China , where von Hagens now lives . Another , 5 INTRODUCTION.
... thought that Meiss left his body to von Hagens . Just as well , though , that he was a man and not a woman , for had that been the case , the word ' voyeur ' would have taken on other connotations . In fact , von Hagens had been ready ...
... thought it pandered to a morbid voyeurism of the worst kind . These attempts to distinguish science from art , and real from ersatz anatomy , are telling . Science and art have arguably never been as disconnected as we have come to ...
... thought to be distinc- tively different from those on the Australian mainland , and by mid - century were understood to be on the brink of extinction . It had the effect of turning their bodies into rare collectables . This history ...