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Morbid curiosities : medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.
LIBRA R871 .A43 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--history.
- United Kingdom.
- Pathology--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Human Body.
- Teratology--history.
- Medical museums--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Medical museums.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Exhibitions--History.
- Exhibitions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Museums--history.
- United Kingdom.
- Pathology--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Human Body.
- Teratology--history.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- 'Morbid Curiosities' is a comprehensive study of 19th-century medical museums in Britain. This book looks at the variety of collections of human remains in Britain and is a history of the material culture of medical knowledge.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: A Parliament of Monsters 1
- Framing morbidity 4
- Anatomy and Enlightenment 12
- A museum taxonomy 18
- 2 Situating Pathology; A Cultural Cartography 25
- Urban contexts 28
- Spaces for collections 46
- The disciplinary landscape 53
- The status of pathology 60
- Materiality and disciplinarity 65
- 3 Collecting Pathology: Fragmentation and the Traffic in Morbid Flesh 67
- Dismemberment 68
- Manufacturing specimens 74
- Gifting bodies 80 Costly remains 87
- Vestiges of identity 95
- Bodily fragments as objects 99
- 4 Preserving Pathology: Craft and Technique in the Medical Museum 103
- The preservator's palette 106
- Manual methods and method manuals 112
- The role of preparation 116
- Preservation in practice 119
- The organic collection 124
- 5 Displaying Pathology: Maps of Morbidity 126
- The healthy body 131
- The sick body 136
- The illustrated body 142
- The model body 147
- The textual body 154
- Pathological intermediality 160
- 6 Viewing Pathology: Medical Museums and their Visitors 163
- The object of medical education 164
- Accessing collections 169
- Morbid sensescapes 175
- The good, the bad, and the ugly 185
- The museum affect 193
- 7 Conclusion: A Catalogue of Errors 196
- Evolution or extinction? 197
- Regulation and re-invention 204
- Material morbidity 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199584581
- 0199584583
- OCLC:
- 687683424
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