Why was grave robbing common in the 1840s?
What did resurrectionists do and who were their targets?
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Resurrectionists were body snatchers who were commonly employed by anatomists in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries to exhume the bodies ...
by JB Frank · 1976 · Cited by 37 — If anatomy is considered the first research discipline in medicine, this business of the body-snatchers may be looked on as the first ethical conflict to be.
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Body snatching, the illicit removal of corpses from graves or morgues during the 18th and 19thcenturies. Cadavers thus obtained were typically sold to ...
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