Megan Rosenbloom Explained

Megan Rosenbloom
Birth Name:Megan Curran Rosenbloom
Education:
Known For:Anthropodermic Book Project
Occupation:Medical librarian

Megan Curran Rosenbloom[1] (born 1981)[2] is an American medical librarian and expert on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin.[3] She is a team member of the Anthropodermic Book Project, a group which scientifically tests skin-bound books to determine whether their origins are human.[4] Rosenbloom is the author of Dark Archives, a 2020 non-fiction book on the history, provenance, and myths about books bound in human skin.[5]

Education

In 2004, Rosenbloom earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Drexel University. Rosenbloom received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008.[6]

Career

Rosenbloom works as a medical librarian at University of Southern California Norris Medical Library, and as an obituary editor for the Journal of the Medical Library Association.[7]

Through her library work, Rosenbloom had access to a large number of old and rare medical books that were also about death. She began doing public lectures on the way the history of medical advancements is intertwined with the use of nameless corpses and met Caitlin Doughty; together they curate Death Salon events.[8] Rosenbloom believes the more people deny the inevitability of death, "the more people are psychically destroyed when it happens in their lives."[9] She co-founded and directs Death Salon, the events arm of The Order of the Good Death where people can have conversations and discussions with others about death.[10] Death Salons are a mix of private Order of the Good Death business and public events, happening nearly annually since 2013.[11] [12]

As a member of the Anthropodermic Book Project, Rosenbloom and her colleagues Daniel Kirby, Richard Hark and Anna Dhody use peptide mass fingerprinting to determine if the binding on books is of human origin.[13] Rosenbloom is part of the outreach team, trying to convince rare book libraries to have their books tested.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Megan Rosenbloom . meganrosenbloom.com . March 27, 2020 . June 20, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210620113559/https://meganrosenbloom.com/ . live .
  2. Web site: Rosenbloom, Megan . LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) . November 2, 2020 . June 8, 2020 . December 22, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211222024112/https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020030285.html . live .
  3. Web site: The Team . October 19, 2015 . The Anthropodermic Book Project . February 5, 2020 . January 28, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210128020604/https://anthropodermicbooks.org/about/the-team/ . live .
  4. Web site: Dark Archives – Megan Rosenbloom . June 14, 2016 . US Macmillan . February 5, 2020 . April 5, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210405224137/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374134709 . dead .
  5. Web site: A Look at Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: On Megan Rosenbloom's "Dark Archives". Los Angeles Review of Books. Jacobson. Christine. March 30, 2021. July 8, 2023. July 8, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230708143050/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-look-at-anthropodermic-bibliopegy-on-megan-rosenblooms-dark-archives/. live.
  6. Web site: Megan Rosenbloom – Movers & Shakers 2016 – Educators . Journal . Library . March 16, 2016 . Library Journal . February 5, 2020 . April 10, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210410215218/https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=megan-rosenbloom-movers-shakers-2016-educators . live .
  7. Web site: Newsmaker: Megan Rosenbloom . Price . Sallyann . October 22, 2019 . American Libraries Magazine . February 5, 2020 . May 28, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210528004933/https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/10/22/newsmaker-megan-rosenbloom/ . live .
  8. Web site: About Us . Death Salon . November 4, 2013 . February 5, 2020 . April 13, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210413094926/https://deathsalon.org/about-us/ . live .
  9. Web site: Death Is Having a Moment . Hayasaki . Erika . October 25, 2013 . The Atlantic . February 6, 2020 . July 27, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210727185221/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/death-is-having-a-moment/280777/ . live .
  10. Web site: Megan Rosenbloom . USC Libraries . February 5, 2020 . August 23, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200823213757/https://libraries.usc.edu/person/megan-rosenbloom . dead .
  11. News: A Profile of the Order of the Good Death . O'Connor . Kim . May 16, 2013 . Pacific Standard . February 6, 2020 . April 27, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210427230426/https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-death-positive-movement-57768 . live .
  12. Web site: Death Positivity Movement – I'm Afraid of Dying . Ortiz . Jen . October 21, 2019 . Marie Claire . February 6, 2020 . January 28, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210128162630/https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a22236/women-in-death-positivity-movement/ . live .
  13. Web site: The Quest to Discover the World's Books Bound in Human Skin . Davis . Simon . October 19, 2015 . Mental Floss . February 6, 2020 . May 2, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210502154559/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70048/quest-discover-worlds-books-bound-human-skin . live .

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