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Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914From Deathbed to Dissecting Table: Acquiring Anatomical Material

Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914: From Deathbed to Dissecting Table: Acquiring Anatomical... [This chapter sheds new light on the acquisition of anatomical material. While much of historiographical attention has been given to the first half of the nineteenth century, when poor hospital patients were forced to give up their bodies, this chapter looks at the other end: the gradual move to anatomical donation. In the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, political and legal debates on the treatment of the poor and the ownership of the dead led to changes in the distribution of corpses for dissection in Belgium. As indigent patients obtained ownership of their bodies, anatomists increasingly had to comply with the standard of consent. By contextualising the emergence of anatomical donation, this chapter elucidates a neglected topic in the social history of anatomy while drawing attention to the changing significance of burial customs, which began to express the will of the deceased.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914From Deathbed to Dissecting Table: Acquiring Anatomical Material

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-20114-2
Pages
75 –152
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-20115-9_3
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[This chapter sheds new light on the acquisition of anatomical material. While much of historiographical attention has been given to the first half of the nineteenth century, when poor hospital patients were forced to give up their bodies, this chapter looks at the other end: the gradual move to anatomical donation. In the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, political and legal debates on the treatment of the poor and the ownership of the dead led to changes in the distribution of corpses for dissection in Belgium. As indigent patients obtained ownership of their bodies, anatomists increasingly had to comply with the standard of consent. By contextualising the emergence of anatomical donation, this chapter elucidates a neglected topic in the social history of anatomy while drawing attention to the changing significance of burial customs, which began to express the will of the deceased.]

Published: Nov 21, 2019

Keywords: Anatomy; Body donation; Consent; Death; Dissection

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