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Possessing the Dead

Possessing the Dead

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ISBN10: 0522857353
ISBN13: 9780522857351
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: Apr 26 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's Hospital. What happened next is shrouded in mystery. The only certainty is that Charles Rose's body did not go directly to a grave.
Written with clarity and verve, and drawing on a rich array of material, Possessing the Dead explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave certain officials possession of the dead, and no corpse lying in a workhouse, hospital, asylum or gaol was entirely safe from interference.

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