A scandalous act: Regulating anatomy in a British settler colony, Tasmania 1869

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-56

  MacDonald, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal skeletons; Anatomy Acts; Dissection; Grave robbing; Hospitals; Medical schools; Royal College of Surgeons London; Tasmania; William Crowther; William Flower; William Lanney

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549082957     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkl083     Document Type: Review

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