Grave robbing is like stealing candy from a baby. Grave robbing also known as body snatching was a big in London during the 1800s. Grave robbing was started by students looking to expand their knowledge of anatomy. Grave robbing further careers, both criminally and professionally. Grave robbing became a big social and political issue. In London, during the 1800s grave robbing was very popular; many wonder the reasoning behind it, the involvement of it, and the solution to it. Grave robbing started because college students taking anatomy feel like they didn’t receive hands on experience when it came to them perfecting their craft. Over the course of the nineteenth century, as more and more students enrolled in medicine, and as surgery became increasingly important to the medical profession, the demand for anatomical subjects far outstripped the number that could be legally provided. Taking their education into their own hands, medical students turned to grave robbing (Rankin 2). …show more content…
“Medical men continued to rely on the gallows and resurrectionists for bodies to dissect until the passing of the Anatomy Act in 1832. The introduction of this new legislation in 1832 provided a more plentiful supply of bodies, by permitting masters of workhouses, hospital managers and Poor Law guardians to donate unclaimed bodies of the poor”(Dittmar, Mitchell, 3).When in those night class the professor gave students real human bodies to practice anatomy. Professors paid large sums of money to lowlife criminals to dig up bodies. In The Uncertain Art Sherwin written by Nuland, he gives insight on professor using a dead body to teach