The 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 they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the 'resurrectionists'...
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Prometheus Books,
[2026]
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