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The Anatomy of Robert Knox
A. W. Bates
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 228 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGHA; BGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
Robert Knox is now remembered chiefly as the Edinburgh doctor who dissected corpses supplied by Burke and Hare. His contemporaries knew him as the most celebrated anatomist in Britain, the author of a controversial book on race, and a radical natural philosopher with revolutionary ideas, who taught a generation of medical students that species and races were produced by the operation of biological laws, independent of design or providence. Though he did not achieve the theoretical breakthrough he hoped for, his writings offered a challenging alternative to Darwinism that anticipated later theories of rapid evolution. This academic biography is the ... Read more
Robert Knox is now remembered chiefly as the Edinburgh doctor who dissected corpses supplied by Burke and Hare. His contemporaries knew him as the most celebrated anatomist in Britain, the author of a controversial book on race, and a radical natural philosopher with revolutionary ideas, who taught a generation of medical students that species and races were produced by the operation of biological laws, independent of design or providence. Though he did not achieve the theoretical breakthrough he hoped for, his writings offered a challenging alternative to Darwinism that anticipated later theories of rapid evolution. This academic biography is the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
532g
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195618
SKU
V9781845195618
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About A. W. Bates
A W Bates read anatomy, embryology and the history of medicine, gaining a Ph.D. from Queen Mary College and an MD from UCL, where he is honorary senior lecturer in pathology. He has taught topographical and pathological anatomy in London for more than 20 years.
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