The Victorian cadaver trade, and lessons from the past masters

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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2012

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Elizabeth T Hurren explores how the bodies of paupers helped advance medical science, while Robert Greene explains how you can become the next Napoleon or Leonardo da Vinci. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	That was Elizabeth T. Huron talking about the Victorian trade in cadavers. If you don't know history, you have a really skewed sense of the present. You think
1:02.1	everything that happens is new and exciting and different and it's not the case at all. Everything
1:06.8	has been done before, has been thought before. We're mostly recycling old ideas.
1:12.4	And that was Robert Green, explaining how history can guide us today.
1:21.6	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast with me, Rob Atar.
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