JAMA reviews The Anatomy Murders
07/15/2010
Q: What recent Penn Press history book has captured the attention of the Journal of the American Medical Association? A: Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular… READ MORE
Category: Health, Medicine & Caregiving
Fictions of Well-Being–Now Available
06/15/2010
Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain Michael Solomon 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2010 |… READ MORE
Spring Overstock Sale–Save 70%
04/01/2010
It's a beautiful day (at least in Philadelphia) and the perfect time for the Penn Press Spring Overstock Sale to begin. Hundreds of titles have been marked down by 70… READ MORE
A Big Wednesday on Campus: Penn Press author Panels on Poverty and Human Rights
03/16/2010
Tomorrow two major author events will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. The first deals with human rights in the United States. The second addresses America's urban poverty…. READ MORE
Matthew Dennis on a New American Indian / NY Gov’t Tobacco Controversy
03/15/2010
In an essay for History News Network, historian Matthew Dennis weighs in on the controversial mail-order tobacco business run by the Seneca Nation of Indians of western New York. “Indians… READ MORE
Bloody Valentines: Two UK reviews of The Anatomy Murders
02/15/2010
This past weekend, both the Scotsman and BBC History Magazine showed some love for Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and… READ MORE
Books for Excellence in Service
01/15/2010
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday approaches… READ MORE
Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives–Now Available
12/02/2009
Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack 288 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4214-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume… READ MORE
Rosner’s The Anatomy Murders Talk on ForumNetwork
11/20/2009
Video of Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders talk at the Harvard Book Store is now available on ForumNetwork. In the ForumNetwork clip, Rosner discusses the Burke and Hare murders and… READ MORE
Import Safety–Now Available
11/16/2009
Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy Edited by Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and David Zaring 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2009 |… READ MORE
