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453 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226712390
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 January 2001
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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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453 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226712390
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 January 2001
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings