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Morbid Curiosities - Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Morbid Curiosities - Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Morbid Curiosities is the first comprehensive study of
nineteenth-century medical museums in Britain. It traces the
afterlives of diseased body parts, asking how they came to be in
these collections, what happened to them there, and who used them.
Pathologists dismembered the dead body and preserved it, whether by
injection or by storage in fluid, thereby transforming it into
material culture. Thus fragmented body parts followed complex paths
- harvested from hospital wards, given to a prestigious
institution, or once again fragmented at auction. Human remains
acquired new meanings as they were exchanged and, once in museums,
specimens were re-integrated to form a physical map of disease.
Curators juxtaposed organic specimens with paintings, photographs,
and models, and rendered them legible with extensive catalogues -
paper, wax, and text formed a series of overlapping systems. They
were intended to standardize the educational experience that was
the ostensible purpose of most of the museums, and yet visitors
refused to be policed, responding powerfully, whether with wonder
or disgust.
Morbid Curiosities is a history of the material culture of medical
knowledge, from prepared human remains to models, illustrations,
and even architectural pillars and galleries.
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