Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead

The Sanctity of the Dead




A letter published  in 1832, that is responding to the public outcry against the usage of the dead for dissection. This is a pretty tempered response, arguing for legal ramifications to quell public rumor and other murder-harvesting, while being critical on the methods students have gone to procure the dead illegally. Here again it must be noted that there is a turn to changing the superstructures surrounding the taboos and not just a blanket vilification of the resurrectionists.  

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