Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories by Helen Macdonald

Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories

Helen Macdonald

224 pages 2011

4 editions

nonfiction health history dark informative medium-paced
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Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly—and legally—carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders comm...

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