AA: The Resurrectionists: Grave Robbing for Medical Schools

The grave should be the end of the story — but for 19th-century medical schools, it was only the beginning. In this episode of The Asphodel Archives, Charon’s Intern unearths the world of the Resurrectionists: the grave robbers who supplied cadavers to anatomy classrooms when the law failed to keep up with science. How did society justify turning stolen bodies into medical education, and what did it mean for the poor whose graves were least protected?

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