Book ID: CBB001251703

Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (2012)

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Mitchell, Piers D. (Editor)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: viii + 186 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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.

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Review Guerrini, Anita (2013) Review of "Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 287-288). unapi

Review Stephens, Elizabeth (2014) Review of "Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 419-420). unapi

Review Alberti, Samuel J.M.M. (2014) Review of "Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display". Social History of Medicine (pp. 182-183). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Mitchell, Piers D. (2012) There's More to Dissection than Burke and Hare: Unknowns in the Teaching of Anatomy and Pathology from the Enlightenment to the Early-Twentieth-Century in England. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Chamberlain, Andrew T. (2012) Morbid Osteology: Evidence for Autopsies, Dissection and Surgical Training from the Newcastle Infirmary Burial Ground (1753--1845). In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 11). unapi

Chapter Western, A. Gaynor (2012) A Star of the First Magnitude: Osteological and Historical Evidence for the Challenge of Provincial Medicine at the Worcester Royal Infirmary in the Nineteenth Century. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 23). unapi

Chapter Boston, Ceridwen; Webb, Helen (2012) Early Medical Training and Treatment in Oxford: A Consideration of the Archaeological and Historical Evidence. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 43). unapi

Chapter Kausmally, Tania (2012) William Hewson and the Craven Street Anatomy School. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Fowler, Louise; Powers, Natasha (2012) Patients, Anatomists and Resurrection Men: Archaeological Evidence for Anatomy Teaching at the London Hospital in the Early Nineteenth Century. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 77). unapi

Chapter Chaplin, Simon (2012) Dissection and Display in Eighteenth-Century London. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 95). unapi

Chapter Evans, Jonathan (2012) Barts and the London's Medical Museum Collections. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 115). unapi

Chapter Mitchell, Piers D.; Chauhan, Vin (2012) Understanding the Contents of the Westminster Hospital Pathology Museum in the 1800s. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 139). unapi

Chapter Lo, Kenneth; Mitchell, Piers D. (2012) A Doorway to an Invaded Mind: Using Pathology Museum Specimens to Understand the Effects of Neurosyphilis in 1930s London. In: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display (p. 155). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Silvano, Giovanni
Bellis, Richard T.
Galtarossa, Massimo
Carnevale, Diego
Claudia Pancino
Webb, Helen
Concepts
Medicine
Anatomy
Dissection
Hospitals and clinics
Psychiatric hospitals
Medical education and teaching
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
France
Paris (France)
Padua (Italy)
England
Naples (Italy)
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Oxford University
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