The
Anatomy Act of 1832 was intended to relieve pressure upon medical schools needing a constant supply of recent corpses for teaching and experimentation purposes.
And before the
Anatomy Act of 1832, students practised dissection on animals and bodies they stole from graves.
As the UK was the first country to appoint inspectors of anatomy under the
Anatomy Act of 1832, [5] and since then has moved towards the appointment of the Human Tissue Authority, [4] this study draws comparisons between the UK and SA in this respect.
Before the
Anatomy Act of 1832 expanded the legal supply of bodies, cadavers for dissection in medical schools were in short supply and grave robbing by "resurrectionists" became the main source.
The
Anatomy Act of 1832 gave license to teachers of anatomy and medical students to dissect donated bodies.
The
Anatomy Act of 1832 ended the practice, although the bodies of the destitute were still passed over to the anatomists for medical dissection.
It was only the
Anatomy Act of 1832, which outlawed grave-robbing and restricted the legal supply of corpses to teaching hospitals and universities, that finally signalled the decline of private anatomy teaching in London.
Burke's trial was huge and helped trigger the writing of the legislation which would become the
Anatomy Act of 1832.
Public outcry eventually led to the
Anatomy Act of 1832, which authorised the use of deceased institutionalised paupers.