The Beauty of Anatomy — Season 1, Episode 4: The Hunter Brothers
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the story of the Hunter brothers, the celebrated anatomists who controversially transformed both medicine and art in 18th-century Britain. Their belief that their students could only learn anatomy by carrying out dissections created an unprecedented demand for dead bodies and a market for the growing trade of body-snatching from graveyards.
About The Beauty of Anatomy
Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them.