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Descriptor English:
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Grave Robbing
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Robo de Tumbas
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Violação de Sepulturas
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Tree Number:
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K01.400.552.169
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Definition English:
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The 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. The infamous practice of "burking", murder to procure bodies for dissection, was given the name of a rascal named W. Burke, hanged in Edinburgh in 1829. (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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Indexing Annotation English:
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stealing of corpses, espec for med dissection; usually in hist contexts; check hist tags
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History Note English:
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97
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Record Number:
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33189
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Unique Identifier:
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D019356
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