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Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories
Human Remains Dissection and Its Histories
Author: Helen MacDonald
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300136364
ISBN-10: 0300136366
Publication Date: 4/15/2011
Pages: 236
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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