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Death, dissection and the destitute.
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ISBN: 0710209193 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul

Death, dissection and the destitute.
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ISBN: 0226712397 0226712400 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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In the early 19th century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832 the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. This text explores this history. In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, "Death, Dissection, and the Destitute" opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.


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The making of Mr Gray's anatomy : bodies, books, fortune, fame.
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ISBN: 9780199552993 0199552991 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition in 1858, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as they are detailed. The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy tells the story of the creation of this remarkable book, and the individuals who made it happen. It is the story of changing attitudes in the mid-19th century; of the social impact of science, the changing status of medicine; of poverty and class; of craftsmanship and technology.


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The making of Mr. Gray's anatomy
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ISBN: 1281998788 9786611998783 0191564648 9780191564642 9780199552993 0199552991 9781281998781 6611998780 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy tells the story of one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: a textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition. It is the story of the remarkable and dedicated characters who created it, of poverty, class, and science and society in Victorian London. - ;Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations.


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Dickens and the workhouse : Oliver Twist and the London poor
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ISBN: 1280594594 9786613624420 0191624128 9780191624124 9781280594595 9780199645886 0199645884 0191624136 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were still standing, near London's Telecom Tower. This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two period


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Death, dissection and the destitute
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ISBN: 1842122770 Year: 2001 Publisher: London : Phoenix press,

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Death, dissection and the destitute
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ISBN: 0140228624 Year: 1989 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

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The builder illustrations index 1843-1883
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ISBN: 0907101062 9780907101062 Year: 1994 Publisher: London: Builder,

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