Death, Dissection and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson
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.Ruth Richardson is a Royal Historical Society Fellow and the author of several books. Her most recent book, The Creation of Gray's Anatomy, was praised by the Wall Street Journal as one of those rare things: history that reads like a novel. The Medical Journalists' Open Book Award was given to such publication in 2009.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140228625 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140228624 |
| Title | Death, Dissection and the Destitute |
| Author | Ruth Richardson |
| Series | Pelican S |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1989-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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