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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Piers Mitchell , Dr. Andrew Cunningham , Professor Ole Peter GrellPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.521kg ISBN: 9781409418863ISBN 10: 1409418863 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 28 May 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: There's more to dissection than Burke and Hare: unknowns in the teaching of anatomy and pathology from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century in England, Piers D. Mitchell; Morbid osteology: evidence for autopsies, dissection and surgical training from the Newcastle Infirmary burial ground (1753-1845), Andrew T. Chamberlain; A star of the first magnitude: osteological and historical evidence for the challenge of provincial medicine at the Worcester Royal Infirmary in the 19th century, A. Gaynor Western; Early medical training and treatment in Oxford: a consideration of the archaeological and historical evidence, Ceridwen Boston and Helen Webb; William Hewson and the Craven Street anatomy school, Tania Kausmally; Patients, anatomists and resurrection men: archaeological evidence for anatomy at the London Hospital in the early 19th century, Louise Fowler and Natasha Powers; Dissection and display in 18th-century England, Simon Chaplin; Barts and the London's medical museum collections, Jonathan Evans; Understanding the contents of the Westminster Hospital pathology museum in the 1800s, Piers D. Mitchell and Vin Chauhan; A doorway to an invaded mind: using pathology museum specimens to understand the effects of neurosyphilis in 1930s London, Kenneth Lo and Piers D. Mitchell; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'... for the gripping (if gory) details of the haptic and material history of anatomy, this book should be on the shelf of any serious historian of anatomical education or student of the social history of British medicine.' Social History of Medicine 'Scholars researching the history of anatomy will find much of this book a useful and welcome addition, particularly its focus both within and outwith metropolitan London, and the archaeological and statistical evidence of some common anatomical practices. For those working on the history of anatomy museums, Chaplin's work on the Hunterian Museum and the 'museum oeconomy' is especially important.' British Journal for the History of Science Author InformationDr Piers Mitchell is one of Britain's leading biological anthropologists, and is also trained as a medical historian and anatomist. He teaches at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in the University of Cambridge. Piers D. Mitchell, Andrew T. Chamberlain, A. Gaynor Western, Ceridwen Boston, Helen Webb, Tania Kausmally, Louise Fowler , Natasha Powers, Simon Chaplin, Jonathan Evans, Vin Chauhan, Kenneth Lo . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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