Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. They have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, in hospitals, universities, workhouses and lunatic asylums in England and Australia. A series of case studies reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science.…mehr
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. They have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, in hospitals, universities, workhouses and lunatic asylums in England and Australia. A series of case studies reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science.
Sarah Ferber is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Sally Wilde is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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Contents: The body divided in time and place: an introductory essay Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde; A body buried is a body wasted: the spoils of human dissection Helen MacDonald; Cadavers and the social dimension of dissection Ross L. Jones; Dissection Anatomy Acts and the appropriation of bodies in 19th-century Australia: 'the government's brains' and the benevolent asylum Susan K. Martin; Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia) Dolly MacKinnon; A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia c.1880-1912 Paul Turnbull; The leprosy-affected body as a commodity: autonomy and compensation Jo Robertson; Gifts commodities and the demand for organ transplants Sally Wilde; Science fiction cultural knowledge and rationality: how stem cell researchers talk about reproductive cloning Nicola J. Marks; Inventing the healthy body: the use of popular medical disclosures in public anatomical exhibitions Elizabeth Stephens; Epilogue Leo Brown; Index.
Contents: The body divided in time and place: an introductory essay Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde; A body buried is a body wasted: the spoils of human dissection Helen MacDonald; Cadavers and the social dimension of dissection Ross L. Jones; Dissection Anatomy Acts and the appropriation of bodies in 19th-century Australia: 'the government's brains' and the benevolent asylum Susan K. Martin; Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia) Dolly MacKinnon; A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia c.1880-1912 Paul Turnbull; The leprosy-affected body as a commodity: autonomy and compensation Jo Robertson; Gifts commodities and the demand for organ transplants Sally Wilde; Science fiction cultural knowledge and rationality: how stem cell researchers talk about reproductive cloning Nicola J. Marks; Inventing the healthy body: the use of popular medical disclosures in public anatomical exhibitions Elizabeth Stephens; Epilogue Leo Brown; Index.
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