So Very Silent
John Pemble: Victorian Corpse Trade, 25 October 2012
Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929
by Elizabeth Hurren.
Palgrave, 380 pp., £65, December 2011,978 0 230 21966 3 Show More
by Elizabeth Hurren.
Palgrave, 380 pp., £65, December 2011,
Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor
by Ruth Richardson.
Oxford, 370 pp., £16.99, February 2012,978 0 19 964588 6 Show More
by Ruth Richardson.
Oxford, 370 pp., £16.99, February 2012,
“... to supply anatomy teachers with corpses for dissection. In Dying for Victorian Medicine, Elizabeth Hurren uncovers a sordid trade that commoditised human remains. At the consumer end of the market were the medical schools, avid for dissection material following increases in 1858 and 1885 to the part played by anatomy in the medical syllabus. At ... ”
