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Susan Lederer, “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Dr. Susan Lederer, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America." In 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American […]