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Author Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.

Title Morbid curiosities : medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Contents note continued: The object of medical education -- Accessing collections -- Morbid sensescapes -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- The museum affect -- 7.Conclusion: A Catalogue of Errors -- Evolution or extinction? -- Regulation and re-invention -- Material morbidity -- Selected Bibliography
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: A Parliament of Monsters -- Framing morbidity -- Anatomy and Enlightenment -- A museum taxonomy -- 2.Situating Pathology: A Cultural Cartography -- Urban contexts -- Spaces for collections -- The disciplinary landscape -- The status of pathology -- Materiality and disciplinarity -- 3.Collecting Pathology: Fragmentation and the Traffic in Morbid Flesh -- Dismemberment -- Manufacturing specimens -- Gifting bodies -- Costly remains -- Vestiges of identity -- Bodily fragments as objects -- 4.Preserving Pathology: Craft and Technique in the Medical Museum -- The preservator's palette -- Manual methods and method manuals -- The role of preparation -- Preservation in practice -- The organic collection -- 5.Displaying Pathology: Maps of Morbidity -- The healthy body -- The sick body -- The illustrated body -- The model body -- The textual body -- Pathological intermediality -- 6.Viewing Pathology: Medical Museums and their Visitors --
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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages [215]-229) and index
Subject Exhibitions -- History.
Human body -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medical anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medical museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medical museums -- History.
Medical sciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147
LC no. 2011499165
ISBN 0199584583 (hbk.)
9780199584581 (hbk.)
Other Titles Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain