Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond
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Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond

Autopsy, Pathology and Display

Herausgeber: Mitchell, Piers
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Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biological anthropologists, alongside experts in the early history of pathology museums in British medical schools and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and medical historians studying the social context of dissection and autopsy in the Georgian and Victorian periods. Together they reveal a previously...