‘Il importe d’établir une distinction entre la dissection et l’autopsie’. Lijken en medische disciplinevorming in laatnegentiende-eeuws België

‘Il importe d’établir une distinction entre la dissection et l’autopsie’: Bodies and the Formation of Medical Discipline in Late Nineteenth-century Belgium In the late nineteenth century a shortage of corpses for the medical faculty led to a conflict that went beyond the hospital walls. Under the influence of public protest the number of bodies that could be used in the anatomical theatre decreased. Pathologists-anatomists tried to secure the availability of bodies by redefining the autopsy. According to them, the autopsy, unlike the dissection, was a decent operation that took funerary ritual... Mehr ...