Description
| Product ID: | 9781138246454 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond |
| Subtitle: | Autopsy, Pathology and Display |
| Authors: | Author: Piers Mitchell |
| Page Count: | 198 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Social and cultural history, Archaeology, Sociology: death and dying, History of medicine, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Social & cultural history, Archaeology, Sociology: death & dying, History of medicine, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | 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 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-09-09 |
