A Traffic Of Dead Bodies
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A Traffic Of Dead Bodies
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Author : Michael Sappol
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
A Traffic Of Dead Bodies written by Michael Sappol and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine to invest itself with the authority of European science. Anatomists crossed the boundary between life and death, cut into the body, reduced it to its parts, framed it with moral commentary, and represented it theatrically, visually, and textually. Only initiates of the dissecting room could claim the privileged healing status that came with direct knowledge of the body. But anatomy depended on confiscation of the dead--mainly the plundered bodies of African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and the poor. As black markets in cadavers flourished, so did a cultural obsession with anatomy, an obsession that gave rise to clashes over the legal, social, and moral status of the dead. Ministers praised or denounced anatomy from the pulpit; rioters sacked medical schools; and legislatures passed or repealed laws permitting medical schools to take the bodies of the destitute. Dissection narratives and representations of the anatomical body circulated in new places: schools, dime museums, popular lectures, minstrel shows, and sensationalist novels. Michael Sappol resurrects this world of graverobbers and anatomical healers, discerning new ligatures among race and gender relations, funerary practices, the formation of the middle-class, and medical professionalization. In the process, he offers an engrossing and surprisingly rich cultural history of nineteenth-century America.
After We Die
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Author : Norman L. Cantor
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-11
After We Die written by Norman L. Cantor and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-11 with Medical categories.
What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norman Cantor provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions. After We Die chronicles not only a corpse’s physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses. In a claim sure to be controversial, Cantor argues that a corpse maintains a “quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights—both legal and moral. One of a corpse’s purported rights is to have its predecessor’s disposal choices upheld. After We Die reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse’s role in medical education, scientific research, or tissue transplantation. This underlines the importance of leaving instructions directing post-mortem disposal. Another cadaveric right is to be treated with respect and dignity. After We Die outlines the limits that “post-mortem human dignity” poses upon disposal options, particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays. Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound. In 2007, the well-publicized death of Anna Nicole Smith highlighted the passions and disputes surrounding the handling of human remains. Similarly, following the 2003 death of baseball great Ted Williams, the family in-fighting and legal proceedings surrounding the corpse’s proposed cryogenic disposal also raised contentious questions about the physical, legal, and ethical issues that emerge after we die. In the tradition of Sherwin Nuland's How We Die, Cantor carefully and sensitively addresses the post-mortem handling of human remains.
Beyond The Body
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Author : Elizabeth Hallam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-16
Beyond The Body written by Elizabeth Hallam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-16 with Family & Relationships categories.
The authors challenge theories that put the body at the centre of identity, going 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing.
Speaking For The Dead
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Author : Maja I Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-02-28
Speaking For The Dead written by Maja I Whitaker and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Law categories.
Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. Fully revised and updated to include recent developments in this area, this new edition incorporates the repeated organ scandals in the UK, body parts scandals in the United States, and the abuses of bodies in China. The book provides new material on neuroimaging, neuroethics and Alzheimer's disease and the major ethical issues they raise for society, in addition to discussing plastination in the form of BodyWorlds types of exhibitions. As human anatomists and bioethicists, the authors offer a unique perspective on these issues, crossing the boundaries between clinical, medical, legal and ethical concerns. Their exploration of both historical and contemporary data results in a clear and comprehensive examination of issues at the forefront of bioethics. With its clear writing style and use of non-technical language Speaking for the Dead will be an essential book for all those interested in bioethics, an area which continues to increase in significance with the development of new techniques for the manipulation of human cadavers. As human anatomists and bioethicists, the authors offer a unique perspective on these issues, crossing the boundaries between clinical, medical, legal and ethical concerns. Their exploration of historical developments as well as their analyses of recent case studies result in a pertinent and comprehensive examination of issues at the forefront of bioethics.
The Philadelphia Medical Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Philadelphia Medical Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Medicine categories.
The Philadelphia Medical Journal
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Author : George Milbry Gould
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Philadelphia Medical Journal written by George Milbry Gould and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Medicine categories.
Unburied Bodies
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Author : James R. Martel
language : en
Publisher: Amherst College Press
Release Date : 2018-11-16
Unburied Bodies written by James R. Martel and has been published by Amherst College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-16 with Family & Relationships categories.
Title on title page verso and throughout the book is "Unburied Bodies."
The Grave Below
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Author : Patrick Hansma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-02
The Grave Below written by Patrick Hansma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-02 with categories.
A 16th century puritan vampire meets a 21st century grave robber. The two become entangled in a mysterious witch hunt as the vampire's history unfolds, and a pair of detectives follow the murders. A traffic of dead bodies and a torrent of blood permeate this glimpse into the total depravity of man and the doctrines of election, viewed through the lens of habitual sin.
Official Documents Comprising The Department And Other Reports Made To The Governor Senate And House Of Representatives Of Pennsylvania
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Author : Pennsylvania
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Official Documents Comprising The Department And Other Reports Made To The Governor Senate And House Of Representatives Of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Legislative journals categories.
Annual Report Of The State Board Of Health And Vital Statistics Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
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Author : Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Annual Report Of The State Board Of Health And Vital Statistics Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Pennsylvania categories.