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Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories

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Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories - MacDonald, Helen
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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.

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Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories 2006, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300116991

Hardcover