American body snatchers : merchandising the dead in 19th century New England and Washington, D.C. / Richard S. Ross III.
"At the beginning of the 19th century, New England physicians teaching anatomy in their medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. The only bodies that could be dissected legally were convicted murderers, and this led to a lack of sufficient bodies for study. D...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Merchandising the dead
- Dr. Thomas Sewall of Chebacco
- "Witnessing angels sorrowfully turned their faces aside"
- "A prodigious bustle" at Dartmouth
- The Yale medical school riot
- The Connecticut anatomy laws of 1824 and 1833
- Under the dark Vermont moon
- Grave robbing comes to Washington, D.C.
- The diary of a body snatcher in the District of Columbia
- The heyday of body snatching in the nation's capital
- Observations on the victimization of Blacks, the poor, and immigrants.