Sally Wilde

The Body Divided (eBook, PDF)

Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History
Redaktion: Ferber, Sarah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, as they took place in hospitals, universities, workhouses, asylums and museums in England, Australia and elsewhere. Through a series of case studies, the volume reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317040279
• Artikelnr.: 44871008

Autorenporträt

Sarah Ferber is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Sally Wilde is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The body divided in time and place: an introductory essay
Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde; A body buried is a body wasted: the spoils of human dissection
Helen MacDonald; Cadavers and the social dimension of dissection
Ross L. Jones; Dissection
Anatomy Acts
and the appropriation of bodies in 19th-century Australia: 'the government's brains' and the benevolent asylum
Susan K. Martin; Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia)
Dolly MacKinnon; A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia
c.1880-1912
Paul Turnbull; The leprosy-affected body as a commodity: autonomy and compensation
Jo Robertson; Gifts
commodities and the demand for organ transplants
Sally Wilde; Science fiction
cultural knowledge and rationality: how stem cell researchers talk about reproductive cloning
Nicola J. Marks; Inventing the healthy body: the use of popular medical disclosures in public anatomical exhibitions
Elizabeth Stephens; Epilogue
Leo Brown; Index.