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 discoveries by these biological anthropologists. Editor(s): Mitchell, Dr. Piers. Series Editor(s): Cunningham, Dr. Andrew; Grell, Professor Ole Peter. Num Pages: 198 pages, Includes 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 244 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2012. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1409418863
ISBN 13: 9781409418863
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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 Royal College of Surgeons of England, and medical historians studying the social context of dissection and autopsy in the Georgian and Victorian periods. Together they reveal a previously unknown view of the practice of anatomical dissection and the role of museums in this period, in parallel with the attitudes of the general population to the study of human anatomy in the Enlightenment.

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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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