From Dispossession to Dissection: The Bare Life of the English Pauper in the Age of the Anatomy Act and the New Poor Law
This essay responds to current scholarship as it explains the poor person's horror of dissection in the Victorian period as part of a long and complex process of deprivation. Working with the Anatomy Act (1832) and the New Poor Law (1834) as its backdrop, this essay examines three anxieties tha...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Transition. - Indiana University Press, 1957. - 59(2017), 2, Seite 235-259 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2017
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Transition |
| Schlagworte: | Law Economics Behavioral sciences Social sciences Business Biological sciences Health sciences Arts Physical sciences |