The Lives of Chang and Eng : Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America /

Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, exhibiting their extraordinary bodies as 'freaks of nature' and 'Oriental curiosities'. The brothers constantly professed their norm...

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Autor principal: Orser, Joseph Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bunker, Eng, > 1811-1874.
Bunker, Chang, > 1811-1874.
Bunker, Eng, > 1811-1874
Bunker, Chang, > 1811-1874
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Siamesische Zwillinge
Conjoined twins.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Jumeaux siamois.
Jumeaux siamois > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Jumeaux siamois > États-Unis > Biographies.
History, 19th Century
Twins, Conjoined
Conjoined twins > United States > History > 19th century.
Conjoined twins > United States > Biography.
United States.
United States
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the monster now before us
  • In and Chun
  • Under their own direction
  • The connected twins
  • Asiatic Americans
  • Southern curiosities
  • Over their dead bodies
  • Epilogue: the past rears its head.

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