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Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America

Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America


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Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--stealing only the corpse was not considered a felony since the courts had already said that a dead body had no owner. ("Burking"--i.e., murder--was the alternative method of supplying "stiffs" to medical schools; it is covered here as well). This book recounts the practice of grave robbing for the medical education of American medical students and physicians during the late 1700s and 1800s in the US, why body snatching came about and how disinterment was done, and presents information on: efforts to prevent the practice, a group of professional grave robbers, and the European experience.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Preface     Introduction     The Horrors of Dissection     Post Mortems and Anatomies in the Colonies     Dissection for Education     Resurrection of the Dead     American Professionals     Murder!     The Coming of the Anatomy Acts     The Decline of the Body Snatchers     Popular Literature     Appendix A: “History of the Anatomy Act of Pennsylvania,” by William Smith Forbes, M.D., 1867     Appendix B: Reports of Societies from the Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, The Academy of Medicine on the Anatomy Act     Annotated Bibliography     Index    

About the Author :
Suzanne M. Shultz, has published works on the history of medicine and Three Mile Island. She is the director of Library Services of Philip A. Hoover, M.D. Library at WellSpan Health at York Hospital. She lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Review :
“exciting, fascinating...unique”—SirReadaLot.org; “explains why the practice existed, how disinterment of corpses was accomplished and who committed these acts”—Reference & Research Book News.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786422326
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 277 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786422327
  • Publisher Date: 10 Mar 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America
  • Width: 152 mm


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