Samuel J M M Alberti

Morbid Curiosities

Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth study of the variety of collections of human remains in Britain in the long nineteenth century

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199584581
• ISBN-10: 0199584583
• Artikelnr.: 32799494

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: A Parliament of Monsters
2: Situating Pathology: A Cultural Cartography
3: Collecting Pathology: Fragmentation and the Traffic in Morbid Flesh
4: Preserving Pathology: Craft and Technique in the Medical Museum
5: Displaying Pathology: Maps of Morbidity
6: Viewing Pathology: Medical Museums and their Visitors
7: Conclusion: A Catalogue of Errors
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