Body snatching
Wood, Alix2014
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Examines religious, economic, scientific, and political motives for body snatching and grave robbing.
Main title:
Body snatching / by Alix Wood
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Imprint:
New York Gareth Stevens Publishing 2014
Collation:
32 pages illustrations (chiefly colour)
Audience:
Upper primary
Contents:
Why body snatch? -- Surgeons need practice -- Artists' models -- How to steal a body -- Body-snatching Britain -- Burke and Hare -- Presidents and corpses -- Body-snatching world -- Discrimination -- Mortsafes and towers -- Is archaeology robbing? -- Booby traps -- Modern body snatching.
ISBN:
9781433995729 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.15 BOD
Local class:
364.15
Language:
English
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BRN:
115446
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