Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

On the Practice of Body Snatching

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A letter by an anonymous writer to the editors of The New Castle Magazine, arguing for the importance of social need for dissection for social and scientific progress. Published in 1823, this letter stands as an odd example that dares to challenge the current cultural taboo of body-snatching.

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