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A traffic of dead bodies : anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America /
"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 als...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "The Mysteries of the Dead Body": death, embodiment, and social identity
- "A Genuine Zeal": the anatomical era in American medicine
- "Anatomy is the Charm": dissection and medical identity in nineteenth-century America
- "A Traffic of Dead Bodies": the contested bioethics of anatomy in antebellum America
- "Indebted to the Dissecting Knife": alternative medicine and anatomical consensus in antebellum America
- "The House I Live In": popular anatomy and embodied social identity in antebellum America
- "The Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table": anatomy, sex, and sensationalist fiction at mid-century
- The education of Sammy Tubbs: anatomical dissection, minstrelsy, and the technology of self-making in postbellum America
- "Anatomy Out of Gear": popular anatomy at the margins in late nineteenth-century America.