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Body snatching.

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Archaeological thefts --- Body snatching --- Grave robbing --- History

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« Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant près de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue, en nous plongeant dans l'univers macabre des étudiants en médecine du XIXe siècle. On y croise religieuses hospitalières, chiens protégeant les tombes, juges, patients d'institutions psychiatriques, policiers, évêques, ainsi qu'un grand nombre de médecins. Anglophones ou francophones, tous s'animent autour d'une même question : quels morts peut-on disséquer pour apprendre l'anatomie humaine et devenir un médecin compétent ? Écrit dans un style accessible, à partir de sources fascinantes et souvent inédites, Cette science nécessaire montre l'essor de la profession médicale au Québec en expliquant, par exemple, comment une émeute d'étudiants à coups de fémurs transforme la médecine canadienne, comment Trois-Rivières devient une plaque tournante du transport ferroviaire de cadavres, ou encore pourquoi les squelettes fument la pipe sur les images de salles de dissection de l'époque. Le rôle majeur des organisations catholiques et protestantes dans l'enseignement médical au Québec est mis en évidence : Montréal au XIXe siècle devient un environnement médical hybride où coexistent des établissements francophones et anglophones, ayant peu d'équivalents au monde. Cette science nécessaire est une lecture essentielle, tant pour mieux comprendre l'histoire de la formation médicale au Québec et dans le monde, que pour mettre en contexte les débats actuels sur le respect et la dignité dans les pratiques médicales et funéraires. »--

Medical education --- Human dissection --- Medical students --- Body snatching --- History

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"The perception of medical care on the Great War battlefield recalls scenes from the American Civil War fifty years earlier : blood-soaked surgeons hacking off limbs with grim determination as broken men crawled into their dirty operating rooms. This couldn’t be more wrong. Medical care in almost all armies, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving, with vastly more wounded soldiers saved than lost. After the war, the hard lessons learned by civilian doctors who were temporarily in military uniform were brought back to Canada. A new Department of Health created guidelines in the aftermath of the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic, which had killed 50,000 Canadians and millions around the world. In a grim irony, the fight to save soldiers’ lives and improve civilian health was furthered by the most destructive war up to that point in human history. But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe : Life Savers and Body Snatchers exposes the shocking story of the exploitation of human body parts during the Great War. Tim Cook has spent over a decade investigating the hidden history of Canadian medical doctors harvesting the body parts of slain Canadian soldiers and transporting their brains, lungs, bones, and other tissue or bones to the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London. At least 1,200 individual Canadian body parts were removed from dead soldiers and sent to London, where they were stored, treated, and some put on display in exhibition galleries at the RCS. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed several times in both Montreal and Hamilton in the early 1920s. Life Savers and Body Snatchers will be the definitive medical history of the Canadian forces in the Great War, and a broader look into the medical advances that came from the carnage."--

World War, 1914-1918 --- Body snatching. --- Medicine, Military --- Medical care --- History

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Death. --- Funeral Rites --- Social Conditions --- Body snatching --- -Dead bodies (Law) --- -Human dissection --- -Anatomy, Practical --- Practical anatomy --- Dissection --- Dead --- Law --- Theft --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- history. --- Law and legislation --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Isle of Man --- United Kingdom --- Social conditions --- -Body snatching --- Dead bodies (Law) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Human dissection --- United Kingdom. --- -Death. --- -history. --- Death --- Anatomy, Practical --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Mourning customs --- history --- Cryomation --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life