To try and contain the escalating situation, the 1832 Anatomy Act was passed in the United Kingdom, making body snatching a criminal offence. However, body snatching continued to occur throughout ...

In 1832, the Anatomy Act allowed the dissection of bodies for educational use. Rather than relying on grave robbing, as artists and doctors often did before then, the bodies of unclaimed prisoners ...

The British Parliament passed the Anatomy Act in 1832, which made it legal for medical schools to dissect unclaimed bodies from workhouses and hospitals. The law curbed the practice of body ...

Image caption, The Anatomy Act 1832 gave surgeons and students of anatomy the freedom to dissect donated bodies. Before this, only the bodies of executed murderers could be used. Image caption ...

Fortunately these crimes triggered legislation in the form of the Anatomy Act of 1832, which introduced a licensing system that made medical scientists more accountable and broadened the kinds of ...

When the extent of the trade became plain, a nation threw up. The scandal led to the 1832 Anatomy Act, which regulated the discipline and the supply of bodies. Dissection stopped being part of the ...

Hostility to grave-robbery in Cambridge is revealed in an account of a riot in Cambridge witnessed by Charles Darwin, in about 1830: “Two body-snatchers had been arrested, and while being taken ...

An important outcome of such outrages was the British Anatomy Act of 1832, which awarded the medical profession rights to “unclaimed bodies” – in effect, those of workhouse paupers.

The report underlines that the provisions of the Anatomy Act, particularly time limits, were "rarely observed" and cites an internal Department of Health memorandum from 1983 which warned that ...

Image caption, The Anatomy Act 1832 gave surgeons and students of anatomy the freedom to dissect donated bodies. Before this, only the bodies of executed murderers could be used. Image caption ...