Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects
Ian Stevenson · 1997 · Praeger Publishers
Summary
Two-volume monograph documenting cases where children's birthmarks or birth defects appear to correspond to wounds on a deceased person they claim to remember.
Why it matters here
The most detailed primary case-archive specifically targeting the birthmark/wound correspondence claim.
Editorial note
Book metadata verified through Open Library; the monograph has no canonical free publisher page.
Linked claims
A subset of past-life cases include birthmarks or birth defects whose location matches reported wounds — sometimes with autopsy verification.
Decades of cases of young children making specific, verifiable claims about a deceased stranger's life — across many cultures, with reproducible sub-patterns (≈70% violent deaths, family-rebirth clusters).
If past-life cases are taken seriously, reincarnation is the most economical narrative — but several other models also fit the data.
Related evidence hubs
Children's past-life memories, birthmark cases, and the rebirth interpretation.
Past-life memories, karma, soul contracts.
Whether anything of mind continues.
World religions and traditions, scored as systems.