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

Richardson, Ruth; Thorne, Robert

ISBN 10: 0140228624 / ISBN 13: 9780140228625

Editore: Pelican Books, 1989

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Riassunto:

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.

L'autore: Ruth Richardson is a historian living in London.

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Titolo: Death, Dissection And the Destitute: The ...
Casa editrice: Pelican Books
Data di pubblicazione: 1989
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good