Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the DeadMain MenuFleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public HealthFirst SectionDying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and MourningSecond SectionWearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of DeathThird SectionUp and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-SnatchingFourth SectionWeird Science: Anatomical Use of the DeadFifth SectionWorks Cited/Full-Texts/Further ReadingsKyle Brett425ed005fc457ac8e436783036f285b42b192fb4
An early op-ed piece, published in The Kaleidoscope in 1826, decrying the stance of the paper's editor towards the usage of the dead within medical dissections. Here the writer highlights the public spectacle and inflation of the body-snatching mania of the country, arguing that these bodies can forward medical understanding and science.