Stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
    

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The sack-'em-up men : an account of the rise and fall of the modern resurrectionists / by James Moores Ball.

The cultural politics of anatomy in 19th-century America : death, dissection, and embodied social identity / Michael Sappol.

Marietta, or, The two students : a tale of the dissecting room and "body snatchers" / by J.H. Robinson.

Death, dissection and the destitute / Ruth Richardson.

Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.

A letter to the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department, containing remarks on the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on anatomy, and pointing out the means by which the science may be cultivated with advantage and safety to the public / by G.J. Guthrie.

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The cultural politics of anatomy in 19th-century America : death, dissection, and embodied social identity / Michael Sappol.

Marietta, or, The two students : a tale of the dissecting room and "body snatchers" / by J.H. Robinson.

Death, dissection and the destitute / Ruth Richardson.

Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.

A letter to the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department, containing remarks on the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on anatomy, and pointing out the means by which the science may be cultivated with advantage and safety to the public / by G.J. Guthrie.