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453 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781842122778
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W&N
Publication date: 01 January 1983
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...
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453 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781842122778
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W&N
Publication date: 01 January 1983
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...