Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy by Helen Macdonald

Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy

Helen Macdonald

289 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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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 i...

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