Modern Mummies

Preservation of the Body in the Twentieth Century

Christine Quigley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

1998
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-0492-6 (ISBN)

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For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists. But mummies need not be ancient. Modern-day mummies can be found under glass in special tombs built in their honor, in private collections where they have come to rest after decades on the carnival circuit, in dissecting rooms of medical schools, and in the basements of funeral homes waiting for decades to be claimed by the next of kin. Stories about the famous (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Eva Peron) and the not-so-famous (Leslie Hansell wanted her body mummified to bask in the sun rather than being buried in the cold ground) mummies are told here in great detail, along with a broader look at the history and process of mummification. The book includes a comprehensive study of the successful prolonged preservation of the human body, and delves into the law and science of modern mummification.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.1998
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7864-0492-2 / 0786404922
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-0492-6 / 9780786404926
Zustand	Neuware