Human Remains Dissection and Its Histories |
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Author:
| Macdonald, Helen |
ISBN: | 978-0-300-11699-1 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2006 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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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.