Death, Dissection and the Destitute - 9780226712390
Un libro in lingua di Ruth Richardson edito da Univ of Chicago Pr, 2000
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Death, Dissection and the Destitute
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Ruth Richardson
- Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Collana: Univ of Chicago Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Dicembre '00
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Funeral rites and ceremonies Great Britain Body snatching Great Britain Human dissection Great Britain
- Pagine: 453
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0226712397
- EAN-13: 9780226712390