Frankenstein’s obduction

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Alexandra
Other Authors: Young, Arlene (English, Film, and Theatre)
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Law
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3896