Stories
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
- Books
Cranioklepty : grave robbing and the search for genius / Colin Dickey.
Dickey, Colin.Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
An indictment for grave robbing at the time of the "doctors' riot", 1788 / by Ralph G. Victor.
Victor, Ralph G.Date: 1940- Books
Murdering to dissect : grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the anatomy literature / Tim Marshall.
Marshall, Tim, 1951-Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Body snatching : the robbing of graves for the education of physicians in early nineteenth century America / by Suzanne M. Shultz.
Shultz, Suzanne M.Date: 1992- Archives and manuscripts
William Pannell Marshall (fl.1828), surgeon, apothecary and accoucheur
Date: 1828Reference: MS.7312/10-12Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries