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
Yet all was not uniform in the world of science. Here, an article published anonymously in 1835, is presumably written by a surgeon, describing daily life in the medical field. The excerpted section highlights the student's reaction to the "dark body" found in the operating room. This writer seems to identify more with the social taboo surrounding the usage of bodies as objects for science, falling back on more gothic and suspense narratives to tell his story.