Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

Showing posts with label morgue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morgue. Show all posts
Friday, July 13, 2012

Mortuary on the market

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A historic property is up for sale in North Yorkshire, England, if you are a morbid sort - and if you are following this blog, you just ma...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Waking up in the morgue

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I have difficulty distinguishing between a trope and a meme , but I guess the idea of waking up in the morgue qualifies as the latter - exce...
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Monday, February 1, 2010

Morgue overcrowding

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A Scene in the New York Morgue -- Identification of the Unknown Dead , a wood engraving sketched by Stanley Fox and published in Harper'...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Morgue news

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Morgues and mortuaries have been much in the news lately. Some are suffering from the economy, one is too lax with removals, and another has...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Morgues and such

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The image at the top is a group of medical students gathered around the cadaver they are dissecting. It is in a new book that I ordered min...
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Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.
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