The Doctors' Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America -- Andy McPhee, Hardcover

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The Doctors' Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America -- Andy McPhee, HardcoverThroughout 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 students themselves) who would sneak into a cemetery under

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