Anthropodermic bibliopegy performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals, such as the case of John Horwood in 1821 and the Red Barn Murder in 1828. Another tradition, with less supporting evidence, is that books of erotica or the occult have been bound in human skin. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh preserves a notebook bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke after his execution and subsequent public dissection by Professor Alexander Monro in 1829. What Lawrence Thompson called "the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings" is exhibited at the Boston
Doctors for Global Health in the first People's Health Assembly. The gathering culminated in the writing of the People's Charter for Health, of which DGH was a co-signer. DGH continues to work closely with People's Health Movement to promote human rights internationally. DGH works jointly with members of the Italian NGO Psicologi per I Popoli on several projects focused on improving the mental health of the communities in which DGH has a presence. Doctors for Global Health http://www.dghonline.org (official website) CoCoSI http://www.cocosi.org Primeros Pasos http://www.primerospasos.org/ People's Health Movement http://www.phmovement.org Psicologi Per i Populi http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/ DGH Reporter Newsletter: Doctors for Global Health 1995-2005 Retrospective DGH's