Notas

^[1] The history of the dead and of the death is the history of the imagination, Dr. Thomas Laqueur, Burning the Dead from Shelley to the Victorians, Romantic Circles Audio. <<

^[2] «No longer an object worthy of respect, the body of each of these people became a token of exchange, subject to commercial dealing, and then the final objectification of the dissection room», Ruth Richardson, Death, Dissection and the Destitute. <<

^[3] También conocida sólo como «Fanny Burney». <<

^[4] «Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: / We murder to dissect». <<

^[5] Burke es el matarife; Hare, el ladrón; Knox es el chico que compra el bife. <<

^[6] Tim Marshall, Murdering to Dissect: Grave-Robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy Literature. <<