Episode 134: Disturbing the Peace (ad-free) (Patreon)

There’s nothing more certain in life than death. No matter how rewarding or challenging our days on this planet might be, for as long as humans have been around, we’ve viewed death as something akin to slumber, however natural or untimely it might be. But not all that sleep are left undisturbed.

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Further Reading

1. “When Is It Okay To Dig Up The Dead?,” National Geographic,  April 7, 2016. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160407-archaeology-religion-repatriation-bones-skeletons.
2. “Archaeologists Identify Bodies of Lost Leaders of Jamestown,” National Geographic, July 28, 2015 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/07/150728-jamestown-archaeology-forensics-pocahontas-history-skeletons-religion.
3.  “Archaeology vs. Grave Robbing, Where is the Line Drawn?”  The Funeral Law Blog,  02/21/2014, https://funerallaw.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/archaeology-vs-grave-robbing-where-is-the-line-drawn-.html.
4. “Harvard’s Colonial-Era Body-Snatching Club,” History, Oct 30, 2015 https://www.history.com/news/harvards-colonial-era-body-snatching-club.
5. “Harvard's Habeas Corpus: Grave Robbing at Harvard Medical School,” The Crimson, Sept 28, 2017. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/28/grave-robbers.
6. “When New York Medical Students Were Body Snatchers,” NY Times, April 26, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/nyregion/when-new-york-medical-students-were-body-snatchers.html.
7. Michael Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-century America (Princeton University Press, 2002).
8. Thomas Gallagher, The Body Snatchers, American Heritage Volume 18, June 1967, Issue 4. https://www.americanheritage.com/category/article-keywords/doctors-riot-1788.
9. “Grave Robbing and The Doctors Riot of 1788,” New York History Blog, December 20, 2016 https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2016/12/the-doctors-riot-of-1788.
10. “The Gory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine,” Smithsonianmag.com, June 17, 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-new-york-city-riot-shaped-american-medicine-180951766.
11. “American Resurrection and the 1788 New York Doctors’ Riot,” The Lancet, January 22, 2011. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60083-4/fulltext.
12. “The Body Trade: Cashing in on the Donated Dead,” Reuters Investigates, October 2017, https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-bodies/.
13. “The Body-Snatching Horror of John Scott Harrison,” Mental Floss, May 2015, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64221/body-snatching-horror-john-scott-harrison.