Possessing the Dead The Artful Science of Anatomy
Possessing the Dead The Artful Science of Anatomy
- ISBN 13:
9780522857351
- ISBN 10:
0522857353
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 06/01/2010
- Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Summary
In 1832, after a series of calculated murders in Edinburgh and London, British parliamentarians passed a new law to regulate how the country's medical schools could lawfully obtain bodies for dissection. The Anatomy Act's aim was to bring a halt to the grave-robbing and murders through which the schools had been tenuously supplied. But this controversial statute's deliberate ambiguity on many matters caused snatching of one kind or another to remain the pivotal means through which corpses were obtained for the rest of the century. 'Possessing the Dead' explores what happened in the wake of the Anatomy Act in Britain and Australia.