Death, Dissection and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Ruth Richardson

453 pages • paperback • 1983

5 editions

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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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