Daughter, Doctor, Resurrectionist - Buskirk, Edmund Michael van
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Empty graves. Coffins splintered. Bodies . . . missing. In the late nineteenth century, Fort Wayne, Indiana is rocked by an ongoing series of shocking crimes: local cemeteries are being stalked, their fresh bodies stolen. Who would do such a thing? All eyes are on the local medical college and Dr. A.E. Van Buskirk, its young demonstrator of anatomy, who must supply the medical school with subjects for dissection. With an attention to both medical history and local lore, Edmund Michael Van Buskirk traces the incredible true story of a scandal that was passed down through his family for…mehr

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Empty graves. Coffins splintered. Bodies . . . missing. In the late nineteenth century, Fort Wayne, Indiana is rocked by an ongoing series of shocking crimes: local cemeteries are being stalked, their fresh bodies stolen. Who would do such a thing? All eyes are on the local medical college and Dr. A.E. Van Buskirk, its young demonstrator of anatomy, who must supply the medical school with subjects for dissection. With an attention to both medical history and local lore, Edmund Michael Van Buskirk traces the incredible true story of a scandal that was passed down through his family for generations. He delves deep into the infamous practice of medical body snatching and how it became a grim necessity for anatomy study in early American medical schools. With the patience of a doctor dissecting an interesting subject, Van Buskirk untangles and pulls apart complicated narratives, then weaves them into a compelling story of family, scandal, and an appalling history that lurks on the "dark fringes of medicine."
Autorenporträt
Michael Van Buskirk, born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1941, received an A.B in 1963 and A.M. in 1964 degrees in Anthropology from Harvard University and a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University in 1968. Dr. Van Buskirk retired in 2004 from a distinguished academic career in ophthalmology with some 200 research publications including four books about glaucoma. He founded, in 1991, The Journal of Glaucoma, which he edited for 15 years, writing bi-monthly editorials on a variety of healthcare topics. He has received numerous awards and honorary lectureships over five continents including that of Distinguished Alumnus from the Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School in 2007. This is Van Buskirk's first genealogically oriented book.