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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 committed by Burke and Hare to supply dissection subjects to Dr. Robert Knox, the anatomist.
This book tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before the use of human remains was regulated. Helen MacDonald looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. Not only convicted murderers, but also Aborigines and the unfortunate poor who died in hospitals were routinely turned over to the surgeons.
This sensitive but searing account shows how abuses happen even within the conventions adopted by civilized societies. It reveals how, from Burke and Hare to today’s televised dissections by German anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens, some people’s bodies become other people’s entertainment.

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Helen MacDonald is a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.

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"A substantial contribution to the history of anatomy. . . . Unusual and important. . . . Finding archival material to make possible a book like Human Remains is hard. MacDonald has struck gold . . ."—Eva Ahren, Journal of Social History (Eva Ahren Journal of Social History)

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  • PublisherYale University Press
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 0300136366
  • ISBN 13 9780300136364
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