International audienceAs everywhere in western Europe, embalming developed in Spain in the 19th century in connection with new injection techniques that made it possible to preserve bodies indefinitely. The article examines the impact of the development of embalming: on burial practices but also on the economy, with the birth of a new death market. The players in this market are identified: the state, which is trying to regulate it; doctors, who are putting their knowledge of thanatopraxy at the service of society; and finally, users. The social practices that arise from the possibility of preserving bodies indefinitely are highlighted through the example of Dr. Velasco’s daughter whose corpse was mummified. From a death-history perspective...
The information consigned in the present article is taken from an investigation, for obtaining a deg...
The way in which a society treats the dead bodies of its members can be richly illuminating. Death r...
This ergonomic study describes the invariants and variable work situations of embalmers. It examines...
International audienceAs everywhere in western Europe, embalming developed in Spain in the 19th cent...
Comme partout en Europe occidentale, l’embaumement se développe en Espagne au xixe siècle en lien av...
This paper studies the trajectory of modern embalming, considered as a technical innovation in the t...
International audienceUntil the end of the 18th century, the embalming of corpses was reserved for a...
In the early 1980s a systematic investigation was begun by G. Fornaciari and his staff of a series o...
International audienceAt the end of the 1830s, embalming became fashionable in France. Unlike tradit...
The evolution of funeral practices from the Middle Ages through the Modern era in Europe is generall...
The recent archaeological excavation of modern and contemporary cemeteries has revealed new problems...
International audienceThis issue proposes to address the variety of relationships that doctors can ...
International audienceThis article is a review of Gravettian human remains interpreted as funerary d...
Roman and Christian mortuary practices are widely explored by historians and archaeologists in Weste...
The embalming of bodies through various techniques and materials characterized the paths of some Ita...
The information consigned in the present article is taken from an investigation, for obtaining a deg...
The way in which a society treats the dead bodies of its members can be richly illuminating. Death r...
This ergonomic study describes the invariants and variable work situations of embalmers. It examines...
International audienceAs everywhere in western Europe, embalming developed in Spain in the 19th cent...
Comme partout en Europe occidentale, l’embaumement se développe en Espagne au xixe siècle en lien av...
This paper studies the trajectory of modern embalming, considered as a technical innovation in the t...
International audienceUntil the end of the 18th century, the embalming of corpses was reserved for a...
In the early 1980s a systematic investigation was begun by G. Fornaciari and his staff of a series o...
International audienceAt the end of the 1830s, embalming became fashionable in France. Unlike tradit...
The evolution of funeral practices from the Middle Ages through the Modern era in Europe is generall...
The recent archaeological excavation of modern and contemporary cemeteries has revealed new problems...
International audienceThis issue proposes to address the variety of relationships that doctors can ...
International audienceThis article is a review of Gravettian human remains interpreted as funerary d...
Roman and Christian mortuary practices are widely explored by historians and archaeologists in Weste...
The embalming of bodies through various techniques and materials characterized the paths of some Ita...
The information consigned in the present article is taken from an investigation, for obtaining a deg...
The way in which a society treats the dead bodies of its members can be richly illuminating. Death r...
This ergonomic study describes the invariants and variable work situations of embalmers. It examines...