Death, Dissection and the Destitute
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Death, Dissection and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson
In the early 19th century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832 the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. This text explores this history.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 | 9780226712406 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226712400 |
| Title | Death, Dissection and the Destitute |
| Author | Ruth Richardson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2001-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
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