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Descriptor English: Grave Robbing
Descriptor Spanish: Robo de Tumbas
Descriptor robo de sepulturas
Entry term(s) saqueo de tumbas
Scope note: Robo de cadáveres después de su enterramiento, sobre todo para realizar disecciones médicas. A finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, debido a la falta de leyes que regulasen la adquisición de material de disección para el estudio de la anatomía, las necesidades de las clases de anatomía se satisfacían mediante métodos subrepticios: robo de cadáveres y saqueo de tumbas. (Traducción libre del original: Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
Descriptor Portuguese: Violação de Sepulturas
Descriptor French: Vol de cadavres inhumés
Entry term(s): Grave Robberies
Grave Robbery
Robberies, Grave
Robbery, Grave
Robbing, Grave
Tree number(s): I01.198.240.385
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019356
Scope note: Stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
Annotation: usually in historical contexts; check appropriate history tags if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33189
Unique ID: D019356
NLM Classification: WZ 320
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2015/07/01
Grave Robbing - Preferred
Concept UI M0028811
Scope note Stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
Preferred term Grave Robbing
Entry term(s) Grave Robberies
Grave Robbery
Robberies, Grave
Robbery, Grave
Robbing, Grave



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