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- ISBN
- 9781845195618
- Subject Area
- Biographies & True Stories
- Publication Name
- Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science & Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Subject
- Medicine, Biology
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 152 mm
- Item Weight
- 360 g
- Item Width
- 229 mm
- Number of Pages
- 228 Pages
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Robert Knox is now remembered chiefly as the Edinburgh doctor who dissected corpses supplied by Burke and Hare. His contemporaries knew him as the most celebrated anatomist in Britain, the author of a controversial book on race, and a radical natural philosopher with revolutionary ideas, who taught a generation of medical students that species and races were produced by the operation of biological laws, independent of design or providence. Though he did not achieve the theoretical breakthrough he hoped for, his writings offered a challenging alternative to Darwinism that anticipated later theories of rapid evolution. This academic biography is the first to examine the influence of Knox's radical upbringing, Parisian training and ethnological studies in the Cape Colony on the development of his higher' anatomy, which traced the multifarious forms of the animal kingdom to an ideal body plan supposedly common to all. New evidence is presented that the subsequent decline in his career, often attributed to the murder for dissection scandal, was a consequence of his opposition to the 1832 Anatomy Act and his refusal to comply with state regulation of anatomy schools. His uncompromising position is shown to have inspired the portrayal of anatomy in fiction -- where Knox appears more often than any other British doctor -- as a savage and ungovernable science. The book will appeal to all those interested in the far-reaching influence of Knox's anatomy on nineteenth-century medicine, evolutionary theory, aesthetics, physical anthropology, and the representation of anatomical science in popular culture.
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Sussex Academic Press
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9781845195618
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Number of Pages
228 Pages
Publication Name
Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science & Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Biology
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biographies & True Stories
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
152 mm
Item Weight
360 g
Item Width
229 mm
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United Kingdom
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