Resurrectionists: The Body Snatchers that Built Modern Medicine

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Before hospitals were safe and dissection was a legal established system, doctors had to study anatomy through morbid ways: paying body snatchers, or resurrection men, to steal fresh bodies from cemeteries. Come learn with me about how this nefarious trade, and sometimes murder, built modern medicine.

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The Butchering Art by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

Art macabre: Resurrectionists and anatomists by Reginald Magee

The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 By James Blake Bailey https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

Glasgow Resurrectionists by S.W. McDonald

An Account of the Watch-houses, Mortsafes, and Public Vaults in Aberdeenshire Churchyards, formerly used for the Protection of the Dead from the Resurrectionists by James Ritchie http://journals.socantscot.org/index....

The infamous Burke and Hare serial killers and resurrectionists of nineteenth century Edinburgh by R. Michael Gordon

Les anatonustes et les r.surrectionnistes en Grande Bretagne: Deuxi.me partie. On tue pour 1'anatomie by S. LeBlond, M.D. https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcre...

Bodysnatchers: A History of the Resurrectionists 1742-1832 by Fido Martin

Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA by Ayah Nuriddin, Graham Mooney and Alexandre I R White for The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men By Suzie Lennox

Haunt of the Resurrection Men: A forgotten graveyard, the dawn of modern medicine, and the hard life in 19th-century London By Kate Ravilious for Archaeology Magazine https://www.archaeology.org/issues/89...

The Grotesque (and Sometimes Amusing) Exploits of the 19th Century Grave Robbers Known as “Resurrectionists” by Jack Weeks for Medium   / the-grotesque-and-sometimes-amusing-exploi...  

Post-Mortem Pedagogy: A Brief History of the Practice of Anatomical Dissection by Connor T. A. Brenna https://www.rmmj.org.il/userimages/11...