DEATH: An Introduction
from the Editors In his essay, ‘A Hanging’, George Orwell looks on as a condemned man is led to his execution: It was about forty yards to the gallows. I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in
DEATH: An Introduction
from the Editors In his essay, ‘A Hanging’, George Orwell looks on as a condemned man is led to his execution: It was about forty yards to the gallows. I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in
PREVENTION: Avoiding Death
by Kristen Keerma Friedman Why is it so difficult to write about the history of death? Everyone in history is dead. Choose any character! And what is more interesting to historians of medicine than stories about preventing that thing
PREVENTION: Avoiding Death
by Kristen Keerma Friedman Why is it so difficult to write about the history of death? Everyone in history is dead. Choose any character! And what is more interesting to historians of medicine than stories about preventing that thing
INSPECTION: Death Stare
by Lisa Haushofer The beautiful and the eerie coexist uneasily in the preservation of dead objects. It is a paradox that immediately comes to mind on entering the Hunterian Museum of London. Rows upon rows of brightly lit and well-ordered
INSPECTION: Death Stare
by Lisa Haushofer The beautiful and the eerie coexist uneasily in the preservation of dead objects. It is a paradox that immediately comes to mind on entering the Hunterian Museum of London. Rows upon rows of brightly lit and well-ordered
IMAGING: Rex Morgan MD
by Daniel Gross Just before Christmas in 1950, Nurse Jan tried to kill her father. He was dying of a painful illness, so she injected him with five times the recommended dose of narcotic. A letter to the Washington Post
IMAGING: Rex Morgan MD
by Daniel Gross Just before Christmas in 1950, Nurse Jan tried to kill her father. He was dying of a painful illness, so she injected him with five times the recommended dose of narcotic. A letter to the Washington Post
TRANSMISSION: Disposing of the dead: The cremation debate in the 19th century
by Lisa Haushofer In her insightful book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” Drew Faust shows how the Civil War forever changed America’s experience of death. Never before had the country seen such a large fatality
TRANSMISSION: Disposing of the dead: The cremation debate in the 19th century
by Lisa Haushofer In her insightful book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” Drew Faust shows how the Civil War forever changed America’s experience of death. Never before had the country seen such a large fatality
CONSULTATION: On Assisted Dying
by Kate Womersley One of Britain’s foremost polymaths, Raymond Tallis is a vocal supporter in the campaign for assisted dying to be legalized in the UK. He has a uniquely broad perspective on this issue as a medical doctor
CONSULTATION: On Assisted Dying
by Kate Womersley One of Britain’s foremost polymaths, Raymond Tallis is a vocal supporter in the campaign for assisted dying to be legalized in the UK. He has a uniquely broad perspective on this issue as a medical doctor
SPECIMEN: Memento Mori
by Cara Kiernan Fallon The story of Lazarus and the Rich Man goes that a poor beggar, Lazarus, is laid at the gate of a rich man. He is covered in sores and longs to eat the scraps off the
SPECIMEN: Memento Mori
by Cara Kiernan Fallon The story of Lazarus and the Rich Man goes that a poor beggar, Lazarus, is laid at the gate of a rich man. He is covered in sores and longs to eat the scraps off the
