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
12016-11-27T10:39:32-05:00The Diary of a Resurrectionist8plain2016-12-13T13:11:17-05:00 Published in 1896, this collection presents an economic, practical, and sociological understanding of body-snatching. Excerpted is the second chapter of the text which gives voices to those that engaged, or heard about, the practice of selling bodies to medical institutions. Including these voices allows us to see what drove those to snatch bodies; a way to see beyond the taboo of the act and rather critique the system that forces its implementation. Also included are pictures of mortsafes used by families to prevent the theft of their loved ones' corpses.