Jeremy Bentham's self image: an exemplary bequest for dissection.

1987/07/18 by Ruth Richardson, Bruce A. Hurwitz · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #Anatomy #Art #Art history #Artificial intelligence #Bequest #Computer science #Dissection (medical) #Historical Philosophy and Science #Image (mathematics) #Jeremy bentham #Law #Medicine #Political science

paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/bmj.295.6591.195

openalex publication_date 1987/07/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25

Abstract

transfusion or injections, and there was no history of venereal infection or genital ulceration. The other antibody positive heterosexual man was an intravenous drug user.

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• The head *was* dehydrated, but had no facial expression, and Smith decided “this would not do for exhibition” – so he asked French artist, Jacques Talrich, who specialised in this sort of thing, to ma [bsky, 42 points, 1 comments]

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