Download or read book Bankrobbers Burkers and Bodysnatchers written by William V. Holtz and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Body Snatching written by Suzanne M. Shultz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--stealing only the corpse was not considered a felony since the courts had already said that a dead body had no owner. ("Burking"--i.e., murder--was the alternative method of supplying "stiffs" to medical schools; it is covered here as well). This book recounts the practice of grave robbing for the medical education of American medical students and physicians during the late 1700s and 1800s in the US, why body snatching came about and how disinterment was done, and presents information on: efforts to prevent the practice, a group of professional grave robbers, and the European experience.
Download or read book The Last Hurrah of the James Younger Gang written by Robert Barr Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.
Download or read book Icons of Life written by Lynn Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynn Morgan traces the remarkable story of the human embryo collecting project at John Hopkins Dept. of Anatomy during the early 20th century. She shows how the science of embryology came into existence & how the embryo entered Western culture as an image of 'ourselves unborn'.
Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Death to Dust written by Kenneth V. Iserson and published by Gale Group Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our culture, we rarely speak about death -- partly because it is seen as a sort of pornography, shrouded in indecency and immersed in taboos; and partly because we know so little about it. Yet nearly everyone at some point has questions about what happens after death. At long last, here is a book to answer many of those questions: What physical changes occur to a dead body?
Download or read book A History written by Knight D. McKesson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Michigan History Magazine written by George Newman Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Writing on Ice written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1906 and 1918, anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson went on three long expeditions to the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. He wrote voluminously about his travels and observations, as did others. Stefansson's fame was partly fueled by a series of controversies involving envious competitors in the race for public recognition. While many anthropological works refer to his writings and he continues to be cited in ethnographic and historical works on indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic, particularly the Inuit, his successes in exploration (the discovery and mapping of some of the last remaining land on earth) have overshadowed his anthropological work. Writing on Ice utilizes his extensive fieldwork diaries, now in Dartmouth's Special Collections, and contemporary photographs and sketches, some never before published, to bring to life the anthropology of the Arctic explorer. Gísli Pálsson situates the diaries in the context of that era's anthropological practice, early 20th-century expeditionary power relations, and the North American community surrounding Stefansson. He also examines the tension between the rhetoric of ethnography and exploration (the notion of the "friendly Arctic") and the reality of fieldwork and exploration, partly with reference to Stefansson's silence about his Inuit family.
Download or read book Shadowrun Cutting Aces written by Catalyst Game Labs and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hotel Bartender Who Slips You A Guests Room Number Because He Thinks It Will Help Him Get Lucky. The Security Guard Who Lets A Team Into A Top-Secret Facility Because He Thinks Hes Pitching In On Covert-Ops Training. The Business Suit Who Drops Ten Thousand Nuyen On A Project Because He Thinks Itll Earn Him Fifty Thousand. Marks, All Of Them, And The Sixth World Is Full Of Them. Yeah, Blasting Your Way Into A Well-Guarded Facility Is Fun, But Talking Your Way In, Smooth And Subtle, Might Be More Rewarding. Almost Every Kind Of Shadowrun Involves At Least A Little Con Artistry, And Some Of Them Are Full-On Long Cons. That Means You Need To Sharpen Your Con Game. With Tips, Plot Updates, Spells, Gear, And More To Improve Characters Con Abilities, Cutting Aces Gives Players The Swagger And Skills They Need To Swindle The World. It Also Includes Information On One Of The Sixth Worlds Hottest Spots For Running A Conistanbul, City Of The Worlds Desire. Cuttings Aces Is For Use With Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, And It Also Contains Plot Information, Story Ideas, And Characters That Can Be Used With Shadowrun: Anarchy With Slight Adjustments Of Character Stats.
Download or read book The Anatomy Murders written by Lisa Rosner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.
Download or read book Sonic Saga Series 8 Hedgehog Havoc written by Sonic Scribes and published by Sonic Saga. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects Sonic's struggle against the villainous dopplegangers from the twisted mirror world of Moebius! The Suppression Squad already conquered their world, and now they're out to conquer Sonic's! Leading them is Sonic's evil double, Scourge! How can our heroes overcome themselves?
