Death, Dissection and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson

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.

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Title	Death, Dissection and the Destitute
Author	Ruth Richardson
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