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SUMMARY:Book Club for July
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) will hold its next book club meeting on Tuesday\, July 21 at 7 pm on Zoom. The selection is Grave Dealings: Body Snatching in Philadelphia\, 1762-1883 by Tim Dewysockie. (BTW\, Dewysockie will be the speaker at the APT monthly meeting in October – just in time for Halloween!). In the 18th century the first American medical school was established in Philadelphia. Following the model of European universities\, anatomical lectures were conducted with cadavers. But where did the bodies come from? Dissection was viewed as a fate worse than death\, and the only legal source of “stiffs” was executed criminals. But there were not enough. As the medical profession and its need for “anatomical material” grew\, a new\, macabre practice emerged: body snatching. \nBody snatchers secretly obtained bodies from cemeteries and sold them to medical schools for dissection. But how did body snatching work? How did body snatchers and medical schools avoid getting caught\, and what happened when they did? How did the era of the body snatchers end? Grave Dealings: Body Snatching In Philadelphia\, 1762-1883 digs through archives to unearth the forgotten history of a time of graveyard patrols and anatomy riots\, when the dead needed protection from the living. Philadelphia pioneered and became the center of American medical education and practice–and body snatching–in the 18th and 19th centuries. \nThere is no fee to join the book club and everyone is welcome! Participants should come ready to discuss the book. The Zoom link will be sent out the week of the meeting in the APT Tour Talk email. Non-members who wish to attend should contact APT Secretary Pam Covey phillyguides@gmail.com by 5 pm the day of the meeting to get the Zoom link. \n 
URL:https://phillyguides.org/event/book-club-for-july-2/
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