Book ID: CBB000741949

Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories (2006)

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MacDonald, Helen (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xiv + 220 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Looks at human dissection in Tasmania in the 19th century.


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Review Rosner, Lisa (2007) Review of "Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 883). unapi

Review Ahrén, Eva (2008-9) Review of "Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories". Journal of Social History (p. 539). unapi

Review Durbach, Nadia (2007) Review of "Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories". American Historical Review. unapi

Review Lawrence, Susan C. (2007) Review of "Human Remains: Dissection and Its Histories". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 852). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
MacDonald, Helen
Madonna Grehan
Harriet J. Mercer
Laura Berardi
Claudia Pancino
Knowles, S A
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Nuova Rivista di Storia della Medicina
Vesalius
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Società e Storia
Publishers
Open University (United Kingdom)
MIT Press
Broadway Books
Bononia University Press
University of California, Santa Cruz
Concepts
Dissection
Anatomy
Medicine
Medical education and teaching
Anatomy theaters (medical teaching)
Science and art
People
Allport, Morton
Flinders, Matthew
Dickens, Charles
Darwin, Charles Robert
Clift, William
Baudin, Nicolas
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
Places
Tasmania (Australia)
Great Britain
England
Australia
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
Vercelli
Institutions
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons
Royal College of Surgeons, London
Oxford University
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