Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Paperback/Ruth Richardson - University of Chicago Press

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In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers.
About the Author: Ruth Richardson is a historian living in London..
The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.
Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science.
At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered Dissection a punishment for poverty.
With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died Destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection.
In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers