Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914

Tinne Claes is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cultural History since 1750 Research Group at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Belgium.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Anatomy is Done?.- 3 From Deathbed to Dissecting Table: Acquiring Anatomical Material.- 4 Under the Scalpel: Dividing the Body.- 5 The Jar and the Coffin: Keeping and Disposing of the Dead.- 6 Conclusion.

“Tinne Claes has written a wonderful study on anatomy in fin-de-siècle Belgium. This book is certainly greater than its parts and will provide intellectual sustenance and great pleasure to all those who read it. … What Claes has produced is a fascinating, thought-provoking and extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of the modernist society in the Western World which forms the basis for most current debates about what it is to be a social human.” (Ross L. Jones, Metascience, Vol. 30, 2021)