The anatomy of Robert Knox : murder, mad science and medical regulation in nineteenth-century Edinbu...
The anatomy of Robert Knox : murder, mad science and medical regulation in nineteenth-century Edinbu...
The anatomy of Robert Knox : murder, mad science and medical regulation in nineteenth-century Edinburgh / A. W. Bates.
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Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N611.0092/5
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English
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ix, 228 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The darling boy of the family, 1791-1810 -- A beautiful but seductive science, 1810-1814 -- Hospital assistant, 1815-1820 -- Parisian anatomy, 1821-1822 -- Museum medicine, 1823-1825 -- Knox primus et incomparabilis, 1825-1828 -- The West Port murders, 1828-1829 -- A nation of cannibals -- The most...
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Publisher
Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2010.
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Summary
"Robert Knox is now remembered chiefly as the Edinburgh doctor who dissected corpses supplied by Burke and Hare. His contemporaries knew him as the most celebrated anatomist in Britain, the author of a controversial book on race, and a radical natural philosopher with revolutionary ideas, who taught a generation of medical students that species and...
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The anatomy of Robert Knox : murder, mad science and medical regulation in nineteenth-century Edinburgh / A. W. Bates.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N611.0092/5
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74VvlAb5ppK3
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ISBN
1845193814 (h/c : alk. paper)
9781845193812 (h/c : alk. paper)
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611.0092 B
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991017472319702626
