Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain
J.M.M. Alberti
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- Editora: Oxford
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- Ano: 2011
- ISBN: 9780199584581
- Número de páginas: 240
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Morbid Curiosities is the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums in Britain. It traces the afterlives of diseased body parts, asking how they came to be in these collections, what happened to them there, and who used them.
Pathologists dismembered the dead body and preserved it, whether by injection or by storage in fluid, thereby transforming it into material culture. Thus fragmented body parts followed complex paths - harvested from hospital wards, given to a prestigious institution, or once again fragmented at auction. Human remains acquired new meanings as they were exchanged and, once in museums, specimens were re-integrated to form a physical map of disease…
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