Murdering to Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy LiteratureManchester University Press, 1995 - 354 pàgines When Frankenstein appeared in 1818 it was well known that the medical profession lent silent support to the grave-robbing gangs who regulary sold the surgeons newly-buried bodies for dissection. This resurection trade led to the sensational Burke and Hare case, which revealed that the bodies of murder victims had been pased to the Edinburgh surgeon Dr Robert Knox with his connivance. |
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... hand originated . The passage comments on the monkey's strength of grasp , a function , in the human context , which Gulliver has already had good cause to observe in this land of giants : on his arrival in Brobdingnag , for example ...
... hand originated . The passage comments on the monkey's strength of grasp , a function , in the human context , which Gulliver has already had good cause to observe in this land of giants : on his arrival in Brobdingnag , for example ...
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... hands in partnership , as it were , with each other : The essence of trading is the giving of one object in exchange for another . The one hand tenaciously holds on to the object with which it seeks to tempt the stranger . The other hand ...
... hands in partnership , as it were , with each other : The essence of trading is the giving of one object in exchange for another . The one hand tenaciously holds on to the object with which it seeks to tempt the stranger . The other hand ...
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... hand . Canetti observes : The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless - and particularly so as regards the future - has , in our society , become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his ...
... hand . Canetti observes : The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless - and particularly so as regards the future - has , in our society , become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his ...
Continguts
The dead body business | 19 |
The contented executioner in Barnaby Rudge | 38 |
Multiaccentuation in On Murder considered as one | 44 |
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