Death, Dissection and the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain by Ruth Richardson
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Death, Dissection and the Destitute
Death, Dissection and the Destitute
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This study reveals the horrifying fate of dead criminals in the nineteenth century whose bodies were sentenced to dissection as an expression of society's revulsion at their crimes, the consequences of which sometimes led to bodysnatching and the selling of victims' bodies to anatomists.
Death, Dissection and the Destitute Summary
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GOR002903238
9780140228625
0140228624
Death, Dissection and the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain by Ruth Richardson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19890330
448
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