Murdering to Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy LiteratureManchester University Press, 1995 - Počet stran: 354 When Frankenstein appeared in 1818 it was well known that the medical profession lent silent support to the grave-robbing gangs who regulary sold the surgeons newly-buried bodies for dissection. This resurection trade led to the sensational Burke and Hare case, which revealed that the bodies of murder victims had been pased to the Edinburgh surgeon Dr Robert Knox with his connivance. |
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... workhouse . As the chronology shows at 1832 , the Reform Bill receives Royal Assent in the days between Bentham's death and his dissection , and on 1 August 1832 the Anatomy Act becomes law . The complex history of the new anatomy law ...
... workhouse . As the chronology shows at 1832 , the Reform Bill receives Royal Assent in the days between Bentham's death and his dissection , and on 1 August 1832 the Anatomy Act becomes law . The complex history of the new anatomy law ...
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... workhouse : the Parliamentary Reform of 1832 achieved a peaceful revo- lution . By the Poor Law Amendment of 1834 the social strati- fication of the country was altered , and some of the basic facts of English life were reinterpreted ...
... workhouse : the Parliamentary Reform of 1832 achieved a peaceful revo- lution . By the Poor Law Amendment of 1834 the social strati- fication of the country was altered , and some of the basic facts of English life were reinterpreted ...
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... workhouse . The hunger- emaciated boys in the workhouse who put Oliver Twist up to asking for more food are a testimony to the power of the laws of nature to break up family life among the poor.16 Bentham's logic leads to and ...
... workhouse . The hunger- emaciated boys in the workhouse who put Oliver Twist up to asking for more food are a testimony to the power of the laws of nature to break up family life among the poor.16 Bentham's logic leads to and ...
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The dead body business | 19 |
The contented executioner in Barnaby Rudge | 38 |
Multiaccentuation in On Murder considered as one | 44 |
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