Book ID: CBB827295266

Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead (2019)

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Tinne Claes (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 338
Language: English

This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with insights that easily go beyond the history of anatomy and the specific case of Belgium. From acquisition to disposal, the trajectories of the corpse changed under the influence of social policies, ideological tensions, religious sensitivities, cultures of death and broader changes in the field of medical ethics. Anatomists increasingly had to reconcile their ways with the diverse meanings that the dead body held. To a certain extent, as this book argues, they started to treat the corpse as subject rather than object. Interweaving broad historical evolutions with detailed case studies, this book offers unique insights into a field dominated by Anglo-American perspectives, evaluating the similarities and differences within other European contexts.

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Review Anna Maerker (2023) Review of "Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 446-447). unapi

Review Ross L. Jones (2021) Review of "Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: Nobody’s Dead". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 53-55). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hurren, Elizabeth T.
Borgo, Melania
Fughelli, Patrizia
Maurette, Pablo
Knowles, S A
Wilde, Sally
Concepts
Human body
Dissection
Human anatomy
Medicine
Death
Medicine and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Oxford (England)
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
New England (U.S.)
Institutions
Oxford University
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