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Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
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Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection Paperback - 2005

by Helen MacDonald

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What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still hauts contemporary life.

Human Remains tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before anatomy was regulated in Australia and Britain. Moving back and forth between Britain and the island penal colony of Tasmania, the book examines an era when convicted murderers received the double sentence of both death and dissection. The poor who died in hospital were routinely turned over to the surgeons for study, and men traded in human remains, including those of Aboriginal people.


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  • Title Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
  • Author Helen MacDonald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition annotated editio
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melbourne University, Carlton South Vic, Austria
  • Publication date November 1, 2005
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780522851571 / 0522851576
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 7.22 x 0.7 in (23.27 x 18.34 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Medical / Nursing
  • Dewey Decimal Code 611.002

About the author

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

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