{"product_id":"the-history-of-grave-robbing-alana-sanchez-9798247707370","title":"The History of Grave Robbing: Medical Body Snatching in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the dead were the price of medical progress?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Britain's medical schools faced an impossible dilemma: anatomy demanded human bodies, yet the law provided almost none. The result was a hidden trade in the dead-grave robbing, body snatching, and, in its darkest moments, murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe History of Grave Robbing\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rise and fall of the resurrection men, the legal contradictions that enabled them, and the social inequalities that made the poor uniquely vulnerable in death. From the Burke and Hare murders to the Anatomy Act of 1832, from workhouses and hospitals to colonial Australia, this meticulously researched study reveals how modern medicine was built on bodies taken without consent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear, scholarly, and deeply unsettling, this book exposes a forgotten history where science, law, and class collided-and where the dead paid the cost of progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alana Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798247707370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.29d","brand":"Alana Sanchez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517120884991,"sku":"9798247707370","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50174b79-8d7a-4d25-b9dd-3f19a5d1bd31.jpg?v=1778730041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-history-of-grave-robbing-alana-sanchez-9798247707370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}