What the Living and the Dead Owe Each Other: How the Burke and Hare Murders Changed Medicine and How We Think About Bodies
with Anastasia Arvin-DiBlasio
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 7PM (eastern)
via Zoom
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We will be taking a look at how the 1828 Burke & Hare Murders in Edinburgh changed both the medical and legal practice of human dissection, as well as current events that continue to make us think about how we view dead bodies and their role in medical education.
We will be taking a look at how the 1828 Burke & Hare Murders in Edinburgh changed both the medical and legal practice of human dissection, as well as current events that continue to make us think about how we view dead bodies and their role in medical education.
Anastasia Arvin-DiBlasio
Anastasia Arvin-DiBlasio
Anastasia Arvin-DiBlasio is an M3 at University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and is interested in medical history, especially the nineteenth century.
Prior to medical school she was certified as an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician. At present, she is interested in pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine.
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