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Anatomy Museum - Death and the Body Displayed (Hardcover)
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Anatomy Museum - Death and the Body Displayed (Hardcover)
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Anatomy museums contain some of the most compelling and challenging
displays of the human body. This innovative book focusing on one
such museum - in Scotland's northeast - opens up a wide-ranging
history of deceased bodies on display, from medieval relics, to
nineteenth-century mega-collections of human remains, to the
controversial Body Worlds exhibition that is touring the globe. A
surprisingly varied and ever-changing material and visual culture
of human anatomy emerges through this history, shaped by multiple
factors, including colonialism and war, as well as shifts in
medical institutions, technologies and media.Within its massive
granite architecture, the Anatomy Museum of Aberdeen's medical
school has grown and transformed over the last two centuries, in
relation to a network of diverse yet interconnected exhibition
sites. Many such medical museums in Britain have been used for
professional training in which bodies after death are treated as
vital sources of knowledge about the living. Anatomists and their
associates have preserved the dead and designed exhibits to expose
the body's internal composition and workings, using models,
drawings, photographs, X-rays, films and the flesh itself.
Fascinating yet sometimes disturbing, anatomical displays, made
with an array of techniques in substances such as wax, plaster and
plastics, have enabled students to examine and understand bodies
inside and out.Strikingly illustrated, Anatomy Museum investigates
the social relationships and cultural practices that render
deceased bodies visible and tangible in spaces of anatomical
exploration and beyond.
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