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.
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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