Death, Dissection And the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain (Pelican S.) - Tapa blanda

Richardson, Ruth

 
9780140228625: Death, Dissection And the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain (Pelican S.)

Sinopsis

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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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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