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"Medicinal cannibalism" as a book category covers works—scholarly, popular history, and fiction—that examine or imagine the use of human bodies, body parts, fluids, or remains as therapeutic substances. Books in the category trace historical practices (such as the use of mummified remains and blood in early modern European pharmacopoeias, or human-based remedies documented in other cultures), explore the medical theories and social conditions that legitimated or contested those practices, and analyze the ethical, legal, and cultural implications of treating the human body as a source of medicine. The genre also encompasses literary and speculative treatments—gothic, horror, and dystopian fiction—that use medicinal cannibalism to probe questions of bodily autonomy, commodification, colonial encounters, and the boundaries between medicine and monstrosity. Overall, it is a cross-disciplinary field appealing to historians of medicine, bioethicists, anthropologists, and readers drawn to unsettling or provocative explorations of how societies have tried to heal themselves.

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