Morbid Curiosities
Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain
$170.89
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2011
Summary
In the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums, Morbid Curiosities traces the afterlives of diseased body parts. It asks how they came to be in museums, what happened to them there, and who used them.This book is concerned with the macabre work of pathologists as they dismembered corpses and preserved them: transforming bodies into material culture. The fragmented body parts followed complex paths - harvestedfrom hospital wards, given to one of many prestigious institu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199584581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199584583 |
| Author: | Samuel J.M.M. Alberti |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 148mm x 20mm |
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absorbing * Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement *a welcome and original addition to the scholarship on natural and medical history … consistently engaging and accessible * Victoria Bates, Archives of Natural History *an intellectually lively and valuable study that shifts attention away from bodies to those body parts which made up museum collections. * Keir Waddington, British Journal for the History of Science *so this is a provocative, well researched, and elegantly written book. [Alberti] has reconstructed a persuasive history of the changing contexts of practices, meaning, and function of medical museums. This book nicely crosses disciplinary boundaries and will appeal to museologists, medical historians, anthropologists, art historians, and museum professionals. * Shauna Devine, Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
About The Author
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti is Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England; previously he held a joint position at the University of Manchester, where he was a researcher at the Manchester Museum and a lecturer at the Centre for Museology. He is author of Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum and editor of The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie.
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