THE RESURRECTION MEN - Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Medicine

For generations, the freshly buried dead were at risk from an unexpected threat. Under cover of darkness, gangs of professional body snatchers exhumed newly buried corpses to satisfy the growing demands of Britain’s anatomy schools, supplying surgeons and medical students with the bodies they needed to advance the study of medicine. However unsettling the practice may seem today, many of the medical breakthroughs we…