Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond : Autopsy, Pathology and Display (9781409418863)

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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 198 pages
• Dimensions 159 x 235 x 12.7mm | 530g
• Publication date 07 Jun 2012
• Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication City/Country United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement New ed
• Illustrations note Includes 29 b&w illustrations
• ISBN10 1409418863
• ISBN13 9781409418863
• Bestsellers rank 2,051,539

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