A traffic of dead bodies : anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America
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- A traffic of dead bodies : anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America / Michael Sappol.
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002], ©2002.
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- Description
- xii, 430 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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- Contents
- 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.
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- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-421) and index.