Title Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond : Autopsy, Pathology and Display

Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages) Series The History of Medicine in Context History of medicine in context Contents Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 There's More to Dissection than Burke and Hare; 2 Morbid Osteology; 3 A Star of the First Magnitude; 7 Dissection and Display in Eighteenth-Century London; 8 Barts and the London's Medical Museum Collections; 9 Understanding the Contents of the Westminster Hospital Pathology Museum in the 1800s; 10 A Doorway to an Invaded Mind; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 various royal colleges of surgeons, and medical historians studying the social context of dissection and autopsy in the Georgian and Victorian periods Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Human dissection -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Human dissection -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Autopsy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Autopsy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Medical education -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Medical education -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Dissection -- history Education, Medical -- history Autopsy -- history MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine. Autopsy Human dissection Medical education Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011045935 ISBN 9781409418870 1409418871

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