Body Snatching

Body Snatching
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 0786422327
ISBN-13 : 9780786422326
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Book Synopsis Body Snatching by : Suzanne M. Shultz

Download or read book Body Snatching written by Suzanne M. Shultz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--stealing only the corpse was not considered a felony since the courts had already said that a dead body had no owner. ("Burking"--i.e., murder--was the alternative method of supplying "stiffs" to medical schools; it is covered here as well). This book recounts the practice of grave robbing for the medical education of American medical students and physicians during the late 1700s and 1800s in the US, why body snatching came about and how disinterment was done, and presents information on: efforts to prevent the practice, a group of professional grave robbers, and the European experience.


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