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Death, dissection and the destitute / Ruth Richardson.
- Title
- Death, dissection and the destitute / Ruth Richardson.
- Author
- Richardson, Ruth
- Publication
- London : Penguin, 1989, c1988.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 426 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
- Series Statement
- Pelican books
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Social Conditions
- Funeral Rites
- Dissection
- Social Conditions > history
- Grave Robbing > history
- Funeral Rites > history
- Dissection > history
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Great Britain
- Body snatching > Great Britain
- Human dissection > Great Britain
- Dead bodies (Law) > Great Britain
- Death > Social aspects > History > England > 19th century
- Death
- Dissection > history > Great Britain
- Funeral Rites > history > Great Britain
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century
- United Kingdom
- England Death Attitudes of society, history
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 378-407.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The corpse and popular culture -- The corpse as an anatomical object -- The corpse as a commodity -- The sanctity of the grave asserted -- Foregone conclusions -- "Trading assassins" -- Alternative necrology -- Bringing "scince to the poor man's door" -- The act "is uninjurious if unknown" -- The bureaucrat's bad dream -- The unpardonable offence.
- ISBN
- 0140228624 (pbk)
- LCCN
- gb^89025554^
- OCLC
- 19265813
- SCSB-11764233
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library