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1	Frankenstein’s obduction Johnson, Alexandra 07 April 2010 (has links) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a prelude to the Anatomy Act of 1832, which indulged the anatomists’ scientific ambition, granting a legitimate and sufficient source of cadavers to dissect legally. When read in concert with the history of anatomy and the historical record of body snatching, including case law and anatomy legislation, Frankenstein exemplifies the issues in medico-legal history at the turn of the nineteenth century, for Victor Frankenstein and the Creature’s stories are set amid the context of anatomical study, grave-robbery, crime, punishment and the illicit relationship between medicine and murder. This thesis accordingly addresses the medico-legal history of anatomy, the anatomist’s ambition and complex inhumanity, and the mingled identity of the anatomical subject as illegitimate and criminal. This analysis demonstrates that Frankenstein sheds light upon the anatomist’s ambition, the identity of the human cadaver, and the bioethical consequences of meddling with nature. Frankenstein The Creature Law Literature Grave-robbery History of Medicine Medico-legal history Anatomy Cadavers Inhumanity Anatomy Act of 1832 Ambition Crime
2	Frankenstein’s obduction Johnson, Alexandra 07 April 2010 (has links) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a prelude to the Anatomy Act of 1832, which indulged the anatomists’ scientific ambition, granting a legitimate and sufficient source of cadavers to dissect legally. When read in concert with the history of anatomy and the historical record of body snatching, including case law and anatomy legislation, Frankenstein exemplifies the issues in medico-legal history at the turn of the nineteenth century, for Victor Frankenstein and the Creature’s stories are set amid the context of anatomical study, grave-robbery, crime, punishment and the illicit relationship between medicine and murder. This thesis accordingly addresses the medico-legal history of anatomy, the anatomist’s ambition and complex inhumanity, and the mingled identity of the anatomical subject as illegitimate and criminal. This analysis demonstrates that Frankenstein sheds light upon the anatomist’s ambition, the identity of the human cadaver, and the bioethical consequences of meddling with nature. Frankenstein The Creature Law Literature Grave-robbery History of Medicine Medico-legal history Anatomy Cadavers Inhumanity Anatomy Act of 1832 Ambition Crime
3	The Evolving Rights of the Dead: The Anatomy Act of 1832 and the Expansion of Liberal Subjects in 19th Century Great Britain White, Dominic Michel January 2021 (has links) No description available. Anatomy and Physiology Surgery Science History Medicine Legal Studies Human Remains liberal subject Anatomy Act of 1832 resurrectionist body snatcher dissection history of medicine human anatomy biopolitics rights of the dead

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