Product Description: Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. Fully revised and updated to include recent developments in this area, this new edition incorporates the repeated organ scandals in the UK, body parts scandals in the United States, and the abuses of bodies in China...read more

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.

Product Description: Designed for beginning anatomy students working with prosected human cadavers or models, this manual is built around a series of detailed diagrams suitable for coloring. Each chapter starts with a list of specific objectives for the exercises that follow, and then features a description section where anatomical structures are introduced, defined, described, identified, and then referenced to the accompanying illustrations and figures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)