Death, dissection and the destitute
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Death, dissection and the destitute
University of Chicago Press, 2000
2nd ed., with a new afterword
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In the early 19th century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832 the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. This text explores this history.
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