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Late-Victorian Alder Heys? - Anatomical trafficking of pauper cadavers under the late-Victorian poor law, 1870-1914, 2003-06

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Reference Code: GBR/1919/AHRF 7/15

Scope and Contents

A case study using the Cambridge Anatomical Teaching School by Elizabeth Hurren on how improvements in medical education were underpinned by a regular trafficking of pauper cadavers under the late-Victorian poor law.

Dates

  • Creation: 2003-06

Biographical / Historical

Published in 'Wellcome History' (Issue 23)

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

AHRF 7/25 A Pauper Dead-House: The Expansion of the Cambridge Anatomical Teaching School under the late-Victorian Poor Law, 1870-1914 by Elizabeth T Herren

Originator(s)

The Wellcome Trust

Repository Details

Part of the Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Repository

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