Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860-1914 Nobody's Dead /

• Main Author: Claes, Tinne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Subjects: Europe, Central-History.; Medicine-History.; History.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; History of Medicine.; History of Science.; Cultural History.; Social History.

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 insight...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Anatomy is Done?
• 3 From Deathbed to Dissecting Table: Acquiring Anatomical Material
• 4 Under the Scalpel: Dividing the Body
• 5 The Jar and the Coffin: Keeping and Disposing of the Dead
• 6 Conclusion.