Book ID: CBB001033735

Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy (2010)

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MacDonald, Helen (Author)


Melbourne University Press
Publication date: 2010
Language: English


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: vii + 289 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

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Review Frampton, Sally (2014) Review of "Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 283). unapi

Review Howes, Hilary (2011) Review of "Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy". Historical Records of Australian Science (p. 172). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hurren, Elizabeth T.
Chaplin, Simon
Clayton, Martin
Ferber, Sarah
Guerrini, Anita
Albritton Jonsson, Fredrik
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
History of Psychiatry
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Medical History
Nature
Vesalius
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Bloomsbury Academic
Éditions du Seuil
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Human anatomy
Dissection
Human body
Medicine
Medical education and teaching
Anatomy
People
Alighieri, Dante
Gray, Alasdair
Hume, David
Hunter, William
Leonardo da Vinci
Mondino de' Liuzzi
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
16th century
21st century
18th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Italy
Australia
Belgium
Scotland
Bologna (Italy)
Institutions
Oxford University
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