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FURTHER LEARNING

Books

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens, 2017

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty, 2017

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom, 2020.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2011

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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture by Chip Colwell, 2017

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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs, 2021

Podcasts

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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine with Sydnee and Justin McElroy

"Ignaz Semmelweis," 3 April 2020

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"How Yellow Fever (Nearly) Destroyed Philadelphia," 6 March 2020

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"Memorialization and Medical Ethics," 14 September 2018

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This Podcast Will Kill You with Drs. Erin Welsh and Erin Allman-Updyke

"On the Origin of Epidemiology," 10 May 2022

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"Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands," 18 May 2021

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"Typhoid: There's Something About Mary," 1 December 2020

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"Shades of Syphilis," 29 October 2019

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ologies with Alie Ward

"Nassology (TAXIDERMY) with Allis Markham," 28 April 2020

 

"Osteology (SKELETONS/BODY FARMS) with Daniel Wescott," 1 October 2019

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"Functional Morphology (ANATOMY) with Joy Reidenberg," 1 October 2018

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"Museology (MUSEUMS) with Ronnie Cline," 12 March 2018

YouTube Channels

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Ask a Mortician with Caitlin Doughty

"The Doctor, the Mortician, and the Murder," 24 September 2021

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"The Bubonic Plague in...San Francisco?" 21 November 2020

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"Why are Black & White Funeral Homes STILL Separate?" with Dr. Kami Fletcher, 18 April 2020

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"ICONIC CORPSE: Saartjie 'Sarah' Baartman," 19 October 2018

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"ICONIC CORPSE: Charles Byrne the Irish Giant," 27 June 2018

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Photograph by Mara Zehler

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Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

© 2022 by Anabeth Laaker

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