The Body Collected in Australia: A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge

Offering insight into nineteenth— and early twentieth—century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body.

To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony...