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OverviewIn the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums, Morbid Curiosities traces the afterlives of diseased body parts. It asks how they came to be in museums, what happened to them there, and who used them. This book is concerned with the macabre work of pathologists as they dismembered corpses and preserved them: transforming bodies into material culture. The fragmented body parts followed complex paths - harvested from hospital wards, given to one of many prestigious institutions, or dispersed at auction. Human remains acquired new meanings as they were exchanged and were then reintegrated into museums as physical maps of disease. On shelves curators juxtaposed organic remains with paintings, photographs, and models, and rendered them legible with extensive catalogues that were intended to standardize the museum experience. And yet visitors refused to be policed, responding equally with wonder and disgust. Morbid Curiosities is a history of the material culture of medical knowledge in the age of museums. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel J.M.M. Alberti (Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780199584581ISBN 10: 0199584583 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 07 April 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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 Select BibliographyReviewsabsorbing Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement a welcome and original addition to the scholarship on natural and medical history ... consistently engaging and accessible Victoria Bates, Archives of Natural History an intellectually lively and valuable study that shifts attention away from bodies to those body parts which made up museum collections. Keir Waddington, British Journal for the History of Science absorbing Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement a welcome and original addition to the scholarship on natural and medical history ... consistently engaging and accessible Victoria Bates, Archives of Natural History a welcome and original addition to the scholarship on natural and medical history ... consistently engaging and accessible Victoria Bates, Archives of Natural History Author InformationSamuel 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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