Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy

ISBN-13: 9780522857351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 304 str.

Helen Patricia MacDonald

Opis

This text explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave certain officials possession of the dead, and no corpse lying in a workhouse, hospital, asylum or gaol was entirely safe from interference.