Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834 - 1929 by Elizabeth T. Hurren

Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834 - 1929

Elizabeth T. Hurren

400 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkab...

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