Author : Richard S. Ross III
Release : 2024-07-31
Genre : History
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American Body Snatchers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Body Snatchers write by Richard S. Ross III. This book was released on 2024-07-31. American Body Snatchers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. As the only bodies that could be dissected legally were convicted murderers, this led to a lack of sufficient bodies for study. These doctors and their students turned to removing the dead from graveyards and cemeteries for dissection. The first medical school in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1825, headed by a Massachusetts physician convicted of body snatching, and made the practice commonplace in the area. This history of body snatching in the 19th century focuses on medical schools in New England and Washington, D.C., along with the religious, moral, and social objections during the time. With research from contemporary newspapers, medical articles, and university archives, topics such as state anatomy laws and their effects on doctors, students, and the poor--who were the usual victims--are covered, as are perceptions of physicians and medical schools by the local communities.