In the collective mindscape, embalming is attached to Ancient Egypt. Such practices were part and parcel of mummification and that era’s funerary practices. They permitted the preservation of the deceased’s body prior to its inhumation. It should therefore come as no surprise that the art of thanatopraxis met with renewed interest in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The 20th century oversaw the development of emergency medicine as a new public health norm.
How does the history of epilepsy explain the negative image that this disease still sometimes suffers from?
Did excess mortality among the Great War insane result from a political choice?
