In search of the real Frankenstein
Description
Examines how the experiments of four scientists--Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, Andrew Ure, and Konrad Dippel--inspired Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
Runtime
47 min
Series
Subjects
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc (27)
- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) (1)
- Resuscitation (1)
Contributor
- Democritus, Christianus (1)
- Ure, Andrew (1)
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (10)
- Aldini, Giovanni (1)
- Galvani, Luigi (1)
Genre
Date of Publication
c2006
Database
Alexander Street
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