SOSC 3365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Body Snatching, Grotesque Body, Dead Bodies
22 Dec 2015
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1797: john young - act to prevent the odious practice of digging up and removing for the purpose of dissection, dead bodies interred in cemeteries or burial places . Death today vs death in the past: as people became less religious, the more uncomfortable they were with death. True state of human heart only possible to know at death. This woman got into a car crash and a paramedic took photos of her grotesque body, which ended up on the internet: the father sued because he technically had the rights to his dead daughter"s. Cultural taboo: world war i, flu of 1918. It"s very much the dignity of the body. Doctors and dead bodies in america: the problem was that whenever you take a photo, you own it body. It wasn"t just the deaths, but because of the dignity of those who were beheaded.
