Lifesavers and Body Snatchers

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

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Publisher's Synopsis

Exposes the shocking story of the exploitation of human body parts during the Great War. Tim Cook has spent over a decade investigating the hidden history of Canadian medical doctors harvesting the body parts of slain soldiers and transporting their brains, lungs, bones, and other tissue or bones to the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London. At least 1,200 individual Canadian body parts were removed from dead soldiers and sent to London, where they were stored, treated, and some put on display in exhibition galleries at the RCS.

Book information

ISBN: 9780735242319
Publisher: Penguin Random House Group
Imprint: Allen Lane
Pub date:
DEWEY: 940.47571
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 782g
Height: 162mm
Width: 240mm
Spine width: 45mm