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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....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300116991
ISBN-10: 0300116993
Publication Date: 9/1/2006
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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