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The Beauty of Anatomy: Episode 4: The Hunter Brothers

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How the Hunter brothers transformed both medicine and art in 18th-century Britain.

How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by performing dissections.

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.

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The relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them.

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