Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Autopsy, Pathology and Display
Redaktion: Mitchell, Piers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 unknown view of the practice of anatomical dissection and the role of museums in this period, in parallel with the attitudes of the general population to the study of human anatomy in the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317181446
• Artikelnr.: 49353404

Autorenporträt

Dr Piers Mitchell is one of Britain's leading biological anthropologists, and is also trained as a medical historian and anatomist. He teaches at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 There's More to Dissection than Burke and Hare
Piers D.Mitchell; Chapter 2 Morbid Osteology
Andrew T.Chamberlain; Chapter 3 A Star of the First Magnitude
A. GaynorWestern; Chapter 4 Early Medical Training and Treatment in Oxford
CeridwenBoston
HelenWebb; Chapter 5 William Hewson and the Craven Street Anatomy School
TaniaKausmally; Chapter 6 Patients
Anatomists and Resurrection Men
LouiseFowler
NatashaPowers; Chapter 7 Dissection and Display in Eighteenth-Century London
SimonChaplin; Chapter 8 Barts and the London's Medical Museum Collections
JonathanEvans; Chapter 9 Understanding the Contents of the Westminster Hospital Pathology Museum in the 1800s
Piers D.Mitchell
VinChauhan; Chapter 10 A Doorway to an Invaded Mind
KennethLo
Piers D.Mitchell;