Dissection

My Dead Body: The documentary marking the first public dissection in the UK in 180 years

My Dead Body:  The documentary marking the first public dissection in the UK in 180 years

Astonishingly, it has been more than 700 years since the first public dissection and almost 200 years since the first British cadaver was dissected publicly. This changed in 2022 when Toni Crews, a young British woman whom had suffered with a rare form of cancer in her lacrimal gland, audaciously waived her right to anonymity and became the first public display cadaver in the UK since records began 180 years ago as part of a groundbreaking documentary (BSMS, 2022).