{"product_id":"grave-dealings-body-snatching-in-philadelphia-1762-1883-9781955041126","title":"Grave Dealings: Body Snatching in Philadelphia, 1762-1883","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis new history explores the social, cultural, practical and legal history of body snatching in America's first capital city.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 18th century the first American medical school was established in Philadelphia. Following the model of European universities, anatomical lectures were conducted with cadavers. But where did the bodies come from? Dissection was viewed as a fate worse than death, and the only legal source of \"stiffs\" was executed criminals. But there were not enough. As the medical profession and its need for \"anatomical material\" grew, a new, macabre practice emerged: body snatching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBody snatchers secretly obtained bodies from cemeteries and sold them to medical schools for dissection. But how did body snatching work? How did body snatchers and medical schools avoid getting caught, and what happened when they did? How did the era of the body snatchers end? \u003ci\u003eGrave Dealings: Body Snatching In Philadelphia, 1762-1883\u003c\/i\u003e digs through archives to unearth the forgotten history of a time of graveyard patrols and anatomy riots, when the dead needed protection from the living. Philadelphia pioneered and became the center of American medical education and practice-and body snatching-in the 18th and 19th centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrave Dealings\u003c\/i\u003e explores the social, cultural, practical, and legal aspects of body snatching in America's first capital city and relates it to the continuing ethical struggles that surround the treatment of human remains to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDewysockie, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tim Dewysockie graduated in 2020 from Rowan University with a master's degree in history, where he developed a passion for local history. He has worked in libraries and archives for over 16 years. He currently works at Rowan University Libraries in New Jersey, United States.","brand":"Brookline Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635419644178,"sku":"9781955041126","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e37d0c41-cea2-4ccd-b333-65520248d328.jpg?v=1759234548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/grave-dealings-body-snatching-in-philadelphia-1762-1883-9781955041126","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}