Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780226712406
Untertitel:
The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain
Genre:
Medizin
Autor:
Ruth Richardson
Herausgeber:
The University of Chicago Press
Auflage:
New ed
Anzahl Seiten:
472
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.03.2001
ISBN:
978-0-226-71240-6

Autorentext
Ruth Richardson is a historian living in London.

Klappentext
In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, "Death, Dissection, and the Destitute" opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.


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