How the Corpse Became a Product

It's the future of death, boys! Support our team and the production of these videos through PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath MORE CAITLIN DOUGHTY The Books I Wrote: http://caitlindoughty.com/books The Course I Created: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ The Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath PRODUCTION CREDITS Host & Writer: Caitlin Doughty (@thegooddeath) Researcher & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak Production Coordinator: Sarah Chavez Outro Songs: performed by DARRENCORP (@darrencorp) SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING Troyer, John. Technologies of the Human Corpse. The MIT Press, 2020. Scandura, Jani. "Deadly Professions: 'Dracula,' Undertakers, and the Embalmed Corpse." Victorian Studies , Autumn, 1996, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 1-30. Indiana University Press. Podgorny, Irina. "Modern Embalming, Circulation of Fluids, and the Voyage through the Human Arterial System: Carl L. Barnes and the Culture of Immortality in America." Nuncius 26 (2011) 109–131 Barnes, Carl Lewis. The Art and Science of Embalming. Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming, 1927. Randolph, Vance. Ozark Magic and Folklore. Dover Publications, 1964. Farrell, James J. Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830–1920. Temple University Press, 1980.