Andy McPhee

If you're interested in the history of medicine—including the more macabre elements of medical education—you'll find [book:Doctors' Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America|223358350] a fascinating read. The 1788 riot does come into play in the book, but it has a larger scope looking at early medical education in the U.S., the shift from having to travel to Europe when U.S. medical schools first appeared, the contentious legal and ethical battles about how to show more provide corpses on which to train medical students, and the social hierarchies that made snatching some bodies acceptable, but not others. I've read multiple books on these issues as they manifested in the UK, but this is the first such book I've encountered with a focus on the U.S., and it's a welcome addition.

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