Dissecting The Author: The Great Dead Body Teachers with Jackie Dent

Date(s): 6 March 2025

Time: 7pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting-the-author-the-great-dead-body-teachers-with-jackie-dent-tickets-1106342422969?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join this Zoom talk as we discuss the practice of whole body donation and dissection.

In this online event Surgeons Hall Museums Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving will be joined by journalist and author Jackie Dent.

Jackie will discuss the research behind her book The Great Dead Body Teachers. Weaving the personal with the history of anatomy and the dissected, Jackie Dent explores the world of whole-body donation all the while looking for answers as to what happened to her grandparents.

It is not necessary to have read to The Great Dead Body Teachers to join this event but if you would like to it can be found here.

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