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ISBN/UID: 9780300116991
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly—and legally—carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders comm...
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224 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300116991
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly—and legally—carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders comm...