$34.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press / ISBN:9780522851571
Human Remains: Episodes In Human Dissection
What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still haunts contemporary life. Human Remains tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before anatomy was regulated in Australia and Britain. Moving back and forth between Britain and the island penal colony of Tasmania, the book examines an era when convicted murderers received the double sentence of both death and dissection, the poor who died in hospital were routinely turned over to the surgeons for study, and men traded in human remains, including those of Aboriginal people. Helen MacDonald is an award-winning historian and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. She is currently investigating how anatomy came to be regulated in the Australian colonies, and exploring the links between medical and non-medical uses of the dead from the nineteenth century to the present.
Helen MacDonald
Possessing The Dead: The Artful Science Of Anatomy
$39.99$10.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
'MacDonald is that rare and precious commodity: a crack
historian with a taste for the bizarre'
Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review
London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's... Buy or find out more →
Human Remains: Episodes In Human Dissection
$34.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still haunts contemporary life. Human Remains tells the scandalous story of how medical... Buy or find out more →
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Winners 2006
Margaret Michaelis: Love Loss And Photography
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Nat Gallery Of Aust
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction: Winner 2006 Margaret Michaelis's story is one that belongs to the twentieth century. A Jewish modernist photographer, her life was shaped by momentous historical events- the rise ... Buy or find out more →
Urban Myths: Two Hundred And Ten Poems New And Selected
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Trante... Buy or find out more →
Theodora's Gift
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Theodora is fourteen when her father Elkanah has a mysterious vision. Soon after, he leaves his family and goes to live with his first wife Pearl. It is up to Theodora and her half-brother Samuel to bring him back. Meanw... Buy or find out more →
Human Remains: Episodes In Human Dissection
$34.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still haunts contemporary life. Human Remains tells the scandalous story of how medical... Buy or find out more →
Swallow the Air
$28.00 – Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr
Winner of the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers.
When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that d... Buy or find out more →
When In Rome
$32.95 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
It all sounded so fabulously Audrey Hepburn: ''I'm going to live in Rome.''' Newly single and no longer satisfied with her routine, the time seemed right for PR executive Penelope Green to leave her charmed existence in ... Buy or find out more →