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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