The Italian Boy

Describes the 1831 murder of a young vagrant and the sale of his body to a London medical college, a case that led to the arrest of his killers, "resurrection men" who acted to satisfy the demand for fresh cadavers for the study of human anatomy.

המשפט הראשון: George Beaman, surgeon to the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, turned back the scalp of the corpse lying before him.

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

Owl Books

מהדורות

8

עמודים

400

ISBN

9780805078497

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata