Human Remains

Macdonald, Helen

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Macdonald, Helen

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ISBN/Varenr

9780522851571

Omtale

What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still hauts contemporary life.

Human Remains tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before anatomy was regulated in Australia and Britain. Moving back and forth between Britain and the island penal colony of Tasmania, the book examines an era when convicted murderers received the double sentence of both death and dissection. The poor who died in hospital were routinely turned over to the surgeons for study, and men traded in human remains, including those of Aboriginal people.

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Produktinformasjon

ISBN/Varenr: 9780522851571
Utgivelsesdato: 17.05.2024
Utgivelsesår: 2024
Forlag: Melbourne University Press
Innbinding: Heftet
Språk: Engelsk
Personer: Macdonald, Helen
Litteraturtype: Faglitteratur
Emne: Medical / Nursing
Målgruppe: Voksne
Aldersgrense: 0
Opplag: 0
Utgave: 0
Illustrert: Nei
Sider: 240