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050 4 _aRA
100 1 _aCooke, William,
_d1802-1834
245 1 4 _aThe necessity of disinterment, under existing circumstances
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2022-11-01
508 _aCarol Brown, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Necessity of Disinterment, under Existing Circumstances" by William Cooke is a medical publication written in the early 19th century. This text serves as an apology and defense regarding the controversial practice of anatomical disinterment for educational purposes. The work reflects the societal and legal challenges faced by medical practitioners in obtaining human bodies for study, emphasizing the necessity of such practices in the advancement of medical science. In this book, Cooke addresses the backlash he faced after he was accused of unlawfully disinterring a body. He explains the circumstances leading to the incident, including his need for a subject for anatomical lectures he was conducting. Throughout the text, he elaborates on the importance of anatomy as the foundation of medical knowledge and urges a more lenient public perspective on dissection. He argues that the benefits of anatomical education far outweigh the moral discomfort surrounding disinterment, advocating for legal reforms that would facilitate the acquisition of unclaimed bodies for medical study, thereby improving medical practice and public health. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited Kingdom: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1827
653 _aBody snatching
653 _aHuman dissection
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69283
999 _c110076
_d110076