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Death, Dissection and the Destitute

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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. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research.

Author(s): Ruth Richardson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 473
City: Chicago

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Body
The Corpse and Popular Culture
The Corpse as an Anatomical Object
The Corpse as a Commodity
The Act
The Sanctity of the Grave Asserted
Foregone Conclusions
‘Trading Assassins’
Alternative Necrology
Bringing ‘Science to the Poor Man’s Door’
The Aftermath
‘The Act is Uninjurious if Unknown’.
The Bureaucrat’s Bad Dream
The Unpardonable Offence
Appendices
References
Bibliography
Afterword
Index