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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... woman who had died unexpectedly , but there were protests and it all became too difficult . Some kinds of publicity are best avoided . The anatomist is conscious of how his work on women's bodies may be viewed . He has been criticised ...
... women's bodies among his exhibits , and promised to rectify it . He explained that he had not wished to be accused of ' exposing the female body to male voyeurism ' . Soon a ' full body female plastinate with genitalia ' appeared among ...
... woman and was ' amazingly pleased ' . 10 And science is performed in artful ways : anatomy as ceremony , ritual , exemplary punishment , and staged museum displays . In drawing a line between science and art , the rich history of these ...
... women and ' native ' peoples ) became medicine's subject matter . This book builds upon that work , and for the first time the far - flung British colony of Van Diemen's Land is incorporated into the story to reveal how human dissection ...