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- Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom abstract "Resurrectionists were commonly employed by anatomists in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries, to disinter the bodies of the recently deceased for anatomical research. Between 1506 and 1752 only a very few cadavers were available each year. The supply was increased when, in an attempt to intensify the deterrent effect of the death penalty, Parliament created the Murder Act 1752. The new law allowed judges to substitute the public display of the dead or dying bodies of executed criminals with dissection—a fate generally viewed with horror—and significantly increased the number of bodies anatomists could legally access. But it proved insufficient to meet the needs of the hospitals and teaching centres that opened during the 18th century. Corpses and their component parts became a commodity, but although the practice of disinterment was hated by the general public, bodies were not legally anyone's property. The resurrectionists therefore operated in a legal grey area.Nevertheless, resurrectionists caught plying their trade ran the risk of physical attack. Measures taken to stop them included the use of increased security at graveyards. Night watches patrolled grave sites, the rich placed their dead in secure coffins, and physical barriers such as mortsafes and heavy stone slabs made extraction of corpses more difficult. Body snatchers were not the only people to come under attack; in the public's view, the 1752 Act made anatomists agents of the law, enforcers of the death penalty. Riots at execution sites, from where anatomists collected legal corpses, were commonplace.Matters came to a head following the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Parliament responded by setting up the 1828 Select Committee on anatomy, whose report emphasised the importance of anatomical science and recommended that the bodies of paupers be given over for dissection. In response to the discovery in 1831 of a gang known as the London Burkers, who apparently modelled their activities on those of Burke and Hare, Parliament debated a bill submitted by Henry Warburton, author of the Select Committee's report. Although it did not make body snatching illegal, the resulting Act of Parliament effectively put an end to the work of the resurrectionists by allowing anatomists access to the workhouse dead.".
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- Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom quote ""Resurrection was one of the most covert underworld activities of the day, and tantalisingly little about it has ever come to light".".
- Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom quote ""The Corporation of Corpse-stealers, I am told, support themselves and Families very comfortably; and that no one should be surpriz'd at the Name of such a Society, the late Resurrections in St. Saviours, St. Giless, and St. Pancras's Churchyards, are memorable Instances of this laudable Profession."".
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