Publisher's Synopsis
"Daughter, Doctor, Resurrectionist sorts the hard facts from murky family tales about a 19th century doctor and body snatching anatomist who allegedly had been tarred, feathered and run out of Ft Wayne, Indiana in 1878. From ancient Alexandria to the latter decades of the 20th century, the foundation of a physician's medical knowledge began with dissection of a human cadaver that coincidentally served as the threshold between beginning student of medicine and incipient doctor. Unfortunately, until the end of the 19th century, a clandestine moonlit exhumation from the local graveyard remained the only source of cadavers. With the first leaves of autumn came the opening of medical schools and the season of resurrection. It fell to the professor of anatomy to make the arrangements. The book relates the story of one anatomy professor, torn between the propriety and obligations of his academic position, who was caught taking bodies from a lo
