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