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Author Ferber, Sarah, 1957-

Title The body divided : human beings and human 'material' in modern medical history / edited by Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde
Published Farnham : Ashgate, [2011]
©2011
©2011

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Description xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The history of medicine in context
History of medicine in context.
Contents Contents note continued: 9.Inventing the Healthy Body: The Use of Popular Medical Discourses in Public Anatomical Exhibitions / Elizabeth Stephens
Machine generated contents note: 1.A Body Buried is a Body Wasted: The Spoils of Human Dissection / Helen MacDonald -- 2.Cadavers and the Social Dimension of Dissection / Ross L. Jones -- 3.Dissection, Anatomy Acts and the Appropriation of Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Australia: ̀The Government's Brains' and the Benevolent Asylum / Susan K. Martin -- 4.Bodies of Evidence: Dissecting Madness in Colonial Victoria (Australia) / Dolly MacKinnon -- 5.A Judicious Collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the Procurement of Aboriginal Bodily Remains in South Australia, c. 1880-1912 / Paul Turnbull -- 6.The Leprosy-Affected Body as a Commodity: Autonomy and Compensation / Jo Robertson -- 7.Gifts, Commodities and the Demand for Organ Transplants / Sally Wilde -- 8.Science Fiction, Cultural Knowledge and Rationality: How Stem Cell Researchers Talk About Reproductive Cloning / Nicola J. Marks --
Analysis Australian
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Grave robbing -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Barkly Tablelands -- 19th century
Human anatomy.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Human dissection -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Human dissection -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Human dissection.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Medical sciences -- History.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Author Ferber, Sarah, 1957-
Wilde, Sally, 1949-
LC no. 2011026574
ISBN 0754668347 (hbk.)
9780754668343 (hbk.)
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