Death, Dissection, and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson
Death, Dissection, and the Destitute

Ruth Richardson

Death, Dissection, and the Destitute

Ruth Richardson

426 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

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In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropri...

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