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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr Piers Mitchell is one of Britain's leading biological anthropologists, and is also trained as a medical historian and anatomist. He teaches at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in the University of Cambridge.
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Chapter 1 There's More to Dissection than Burke and Hare Piers D.Mitchell; Chapter 2 Morbid Osteology Andrew T.Chamberlain; Chapter 3 A Star of the First Magnitude A. GaynorWestern; Chapter 4 Early Medical Training and Treatment in Oxford CeridwenBoston HelenWebb; Chapter 5 William Hewson and the Craven Street Anatomy School TaniaKausmally; Chapter 6 Patients Anatomists and Resurrection Men LouiseFowler NatashaPowers; Chapter 7 Dissection and Display in Eighteenth-Century London SimonChaplin; Chapter 8 Barts and the London's Medical Museum Collections JonathanEvans; Chapter 9 Understanding the Contents of the Westminster Hospital Pathology Museum in the 1800s Piers D.Mitchell VinChauhan; Chapter 10 A Doorway to an Invaded Mind KennethLo Piers D.Mitchell;
Chapter 1 There's More to Dissection than Burke and Hare Piers D.Mitchell; Chapter 2 Morbid Osteology Andrew T.Chamberlain; Chapter 3 A Star of the First Magnitude A. GaynorWestern; Chapter 4 Early Medical Training and Treatment in Oxford CeridwenBoston HelenWebb; Chapter 5 William Hewson and the Craven Street Anatomy School TaniaKausmally; Chapter 6 Patients Anatomists and Resurrection Men LouiseFowler NatashaPowers; Chapter 7 Dissection and Display in Eighteenth-Century London SimonChaplin; Chapter 8 Barts and the London's Medical Museum Collections JonathanEvans; Chapter 9 Understanding the Contents of the Westminster Hospital Pathology Museum in the 1800s Piers D.Mitchell VinChauhan; Chapter 10 A Doorway to an Invaded Mind KennethLo Piers D.Mitchell;
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