Date Presented

Spring 5-18-2024

Document Type

Thesis

First Advisor

Dr. Price Blair

Second Advisor

Dr. Mary Brickhouse-Bryson

Third Advisor

Dr. Elza Tiner

Abstract

This thesis examines the local case of Ella Jamerson, a victim of grave robbing for the purposes of anatomization, in order to display the paradigm shift in documentation which this incident brought to its community. Anatomization is the dissection of individuals in order to gain knowledge concerning the structures and functions of the human body. This practice, though responsible for advancements within the study of human medicine, maintains a heavy stigma of discomposure due to previously unethical methods through which bodies have historically been procured for dissection. The act of resurrection, or graverobbing for medical education was utilized to provide medical universities with anatomizable material. In this thesis, the physical and legal history of academic grave robbing and dissection is explored as a perpetrator of structural violence and a means of social control.

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