Doctors' Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America - Hardcover
by Andy McPhee
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781493088058ISBN-10:149308805XUPC:9781493088058Book Category:True Crime, Medical, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, History, ModernBook Topic:18th CenturySize:9.14 x 6.07 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC67YJSBFX
Doctors' Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the "resurrectionists" - body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781493088058ISBN-10:149308805XUPC:9781493088058Book Category:True Crime, Medical, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, History, ModernBook Topic:18th CenturySize:9.14 x 6.07 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC67YJSBFX
Andy McPhee has worked in the publishing field for more than 30 years, starting as a writer and editor at Weekly Reader's mid-level science magazine and finishing as a healthcare textbook publisher for F. A. Davis, a major publishing house in Philadelphia. His narrative nonfiction book, Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town, published in 2023 by the University...
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