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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Grave robbing"”.
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HUMAN REMAINS IN MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS: LAWS AND POLICIES
… by various means like purchases, donations, and grave robbing. The ethical and legal process of displaying and having ownership of human remains has been questioned in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom because both have extensive human remains collections from multiple …
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A Market for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America
… Nineteenth-Century America" examines the rise of grave robbing for the procurement of human bodies for educational and entertainment purposes. In the late eighteenth century, new medical schools sought cadavers for dissection and anatomical study, and public entrepreneurs used bodies and body …
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Dissecting the Pennsylvania Anatomy Act: Laws, bodies, and science, 1880--1960
… Scholars have paid scant attention to the post grave-robbing history of anatomy and dissection in the United States. When the state engaged in body procurement for medicine and science, who wound up on the dissection tables and in the specimen jars of anatomy laboratories? Specifically, whose …