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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.