Human Remains : Dissection and Its Histories by Helen Macdonald (Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300116993
ISBN-13
9780300116991
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63083077

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Human Remains : Dissection and Its Histories
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Forensic Medicine, Archaeology, Sociology / General, Anthropology / General, Australia & New Zealand
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Medical, History
Author
Helen Macdonald
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2006-920595
Reviews
"A substantial contribution to the history of anatomy. . . . Unusual and important. . . . Finding archival material to make possible a book like Human Remains is hard. MacDonald has struck gold . . ."�Eva Ahren, Journal of Social History, "A substantial contribution to the history of anatomy. . . . Unusual and important. . . . Finding archival material to make possible a book like Human Remains is hard. MacDonald has struck gold . . ." Eva Ahren, Journal of Social History, "A substantial contribution to the history of anatomy. . . . Unusual and important. . . . Finding archival material to make possible a book like Human Remains is hard. MacDonald has struck gold . . ."-Eva Ahren, Journal of Social History
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
611
Synopsis
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., 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., Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly--and legally--carried 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 Diemen's 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 today's televised dissections by German anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens, some people's bodies become other people's entertainment.
LC Classification Number
GT3353

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