A Traffic of Dead Bodies : Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America /

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A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also intr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sappol, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Group identity > United States > History > 19th century.
Human anatomy > United States > History > 19th century.
Human dissection > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / Social History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. "The Mysteries of the Dead Body": Death, Embodiment, and Social Identity
  • 2. "A Genuine Zeal": The Anatomical Era in American Medicine
  • 3. "Anatomy Is the Charm": Dissection and Medical Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
  • 4. "A Traffic of Dead Bodies": The Contested Bioethics of Anatomy in Antebellum America
  • 5. "Indebted to the Dissecting Knife": Alternative Medicine and Anatomical Consensus in Antebellum America
  • 6. "The House I Live In": Popular Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Antebellum America
  • 7. "The Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table": Anatomy, Sex, and Sensationalist Fiction at Mid-Century
  • 8. The Education of Sammy Tubbs: Anatomical Dissection, Minstrelsy, and the Technology of Self-Making in Postbellum America
  • 9. "Anatomy Out of Gear": Popular Anatomy at the Margins in Late Nineteenth-Century America
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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