1st Edition
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume I: Medical Education and Anatomical Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Volume I. Medical Education and Anatomical Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Introduction – Volume I
Prologue
Lætitia Pilkington, ‘To the Rev. Dr. Hales’ [c. 1739]
Part 1: Anatomy and Medical Education in Britain
1. Benjamin C. Brodie, The Hunterian Oration delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the 14th of February, 1837 (London: Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837).
2. Aesculapius, The Hospital Pupils’ Guide, being Oracular communications addressed to the students of the medical profession (London: E. Cox, 1818). 2nd edn.
3. [Anon.], ‘Medical Education in England’, London Medical Gazette (8 Dec. 1827), 10–11.
4. [Albert Richard Smith], The Physiology of the London Medical Student, and Curiosities of Medical Experience (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845), 5–48.
5. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), Chapter 4.
6. Charles Dickens, ‘How the Pickwickians made and cultivated the acquaintance of a couple of nice young men belonging to one of the liberal professions; how they disported themselves on the ice; and how their visit came to a conclusion’, The Pickwick Papers (1837), Chapter XXX.
7. George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872), Chapter XV.
Part 2: Normal and Pathological Anatomy
8. Matthew Baillie, The Morbid Anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body [1793] (London: J. Johnson, and G. Nicol, 1797), i–xi (preface to the first edition).
9. Frederick John Knox, ‘Preface’ The Anatomist’s Instructor, and museum companion: being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1836), i-vii.
10. Frederick John Knox, ‘Introduction’, The Anatomist’s Instructor, and museum companion: being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1836), 1–7.
Part 3: The Call for Reform
11. William Rowley, On the Absolute Necessity of Encouraging instead of Preventing or Embarrassing the Study of Anatomy with a Plan to Prevent Violating the Dormitories of the Defunct. Addressed to the Legislature of Great Britain (London, 1795).
12. John Abernethy, Hunterian Oration, for the year 1819 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819), 1–41.
13. Humanus, A Letter to John Abernethy, Esq. on Stealing Dead Bodies (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1823).
14. William Mackenzie, An Appeal to the public and to the legislature, on the necessity of affording dead bodies to the schools of anatomy, by legislative enactment (Glasgow: Robertson and Atkinson, et. al, 1824).
15. Thomas Southwood Smith, Use of the Dead to the Living (Westminster Review, 1827).
Part 4: The Select Committee on Anatomy
16. Report from the Select Committee on Anatomy (22 July 1828).
17. G. J. Guthrie, Remarks on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on Anatomy, and pointing out the means by which the science may be cultivated with advantage and safety to the public (London: W. Sams, 1829).
Index
Biography
Laurence Talairach is professor of English at Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier. Her publications include Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 (2019) and Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (2009).
