Series 1 Episode 3
A Modern Frankenstein
(50 mins)
More than 8 million people around the world have seen the exhibits in Gunther Von Hagens' exhibition of flayed and dissected corpses, but the professor has been accused of desecrating…
Eighteenth century surgeons needed bodies to try out new operations and teach anatomy, but they were limited to six corpses of hanged murderers per year for dissection. So anatomy spawned…
A history of the science of anatomy, from the ancient practice of human vivisection in the Greek Empire to the endemic grave robbing of 19th-century Britain.
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