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Death Dissection and the Destitute
Death Dissection and the Destitute
Author: 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.
ISBN-13: 9780222671240
ISBN-10: 0222671246
Publication Date: 1/28/2010
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Publisher: Burke Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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