"Resurrection Men: Body Snatching, Medicine, and Riot in Nineteenth-Century Missouri

Nineteenth-century medical educators needed human bodies for their students to practice on, but that was illegal. The result was midnight raids of graveyards, doctor eccentricity, student high jinx, and intrigue. While Mark Twain found it all amusing, others did not. Riot ensued when people suspected that ghoulish medical men turned to murder to obtain bodies.
Kenneth Winn, Ph. D., is the former state archivist of Missouri and former director of the Library and Public Services for the Missouri Supreme Court of Missouri. He is the author or co-editor of a number of books and articles on Missouri political and cultural history. He has taught history at Washington University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Lincoln University. 
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