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Previous Volume 355:2163-2164 November 16, 2006 Number 20

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By Helen MacDonald. 220 pp., illustrated. London, Yale University Press, 2006. $35. ISBN 0-300-11699-3.

Helen MacDonald has written a remarkable story, which is itself a series of stories and comparisons. Like a good Agatha Christie murder mystery, this is a tale you will not want to put down until you have finished it.

MacDonald begins by pointing out that London's Royal College of Surgeons received all the bodies of those executed for murder between 1752 and 1832. Dissection was viewed as part of the punishment at a time when respectful treatment of the bodies of the dead was highly valued. Experiments were also carried out, including a galvanic experiment on George Foster, who had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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