Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author:   Samuel J.M.M. Alberti (Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain


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Author:   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:  

9780199584581


ISBN 10:   0199584583
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 April 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: 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 Bibliography

Reviews

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 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 Information

Samuel 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.

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