Download or read book The Anatomist s Instructor and Museum Companion Being Practical Instructions for the Formation and Subsequent Management of Anatomical Museums written by Frederick John KNOX and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anatomist s Instructor and Museum Companion written by Frederick John Knox and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anatomist s Instructor And Museum Companion Being Practical Directions For The Formation And Subsequent Management Of Anatomical Museums written by Knox Frederick John and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anatomy Museum written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hidden from the public eye. Elizabeth Hallam here investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. Hallam explores the history of these museums and how they operate in the current cultural environment. Their regulated access increasingly clashes with evolving public mores toward the exposed body, as demonstrated by the international popularity of the Body Worlds exhibition. The book examines such related topics as artistic works that employ the images of dead bodies and the larger ongoing debate over the disposal of corpses. Issues such as aesthetics and science, organ and body donations, and the dead body in Western religion and ritual are also discussed here in fascinating depth. The Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history that investigates the ideas of preservation, human rituals of death, and the spaces that our bodies occupy in this life and beyond.

Download or read book Anatomy Museum written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with their incredible technological developments and complex uses of visual images and the flesh itself remaining largely under researched. This book investigates anatomy museums in Western settings, revealing how they have operated in the often passionate pursuit of knowledge that inspires both fascination and fear. Elizabeth Hallam explores these museums, past and present, showing how they display the human body—whether naked, stripped of skin, completely dissected, or rendered in the form of drawings, three-dimensional models, x-rays, or films. She identifies within anatomy museums a diverse array of related issues—from the representation of deceased bodies in art to the aesthetics of science, from body donation to techniques for preserving corpses and ritualized practices for disposing of the dead. Probing these matters through in-depth study, Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history of the spaces human bodies are made to occupy when displayed after death.

Download or read book The Medico chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine written by James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medico chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gothic Remains written by Laurence Talairach and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror – the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton – capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 offers an exploration of those Gothic tropes and conventions that were most thoroughly steeped in the anatomical culture of the period – from skeletons, used to understand human anatomy, to pathological human remains exhibited in medical museums; from bodysnatching aimed at providing dissection subjects, to live-burials resulting from medical misdiagnoses and pointing to contemporary research into the signs of death. The historicist reading of canonical and less-known Gothic texts proposed throughout Gothic Remains, explored through the prism of anatomy, seeks to offer new insights into the ways in which medical practice and the medical sciences informed the aesthetics of pain and death typically read therein, and the two-way traffic that emerged between medical literature and literary texts.

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Download or read book Death Is All around Us written by Jonathan M. Weber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of forty-four (Paris), and one out of thirty-five (Madrid). It is not an exaggeration to maintain that each day dozens of bodies could be found scattered throughout the streets of Mexico City, making the capital city one of the most unsanitary places in the Western Hemisphere. In light of such startling scenes, in Death Is All around Us Jonathan M. Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Díaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city. By reducing the high mortality rate, state officials believed that Mexico City would be seen as a more modern and viable capital in North America. To this end the government used new forms of technology and scientific knowledge to deal with the thousands of unidentified and unburied corpses found in hospital morgues and cemeteries and on the streets. Tackling the central question of how the government used the latest technological and scientific advancements to persuade citizens and foreigners alike that the capital city—and thus Mexico as a whole—was capable of resolving the hygienic issues plaguing the city, Weber explores how the state’s attempts to exert control over procedures of death and burial became a powerful weapon for controlling the behavior of its citizens.

Download or read book The Medico chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Body in Medical Culture The written by Elizabeth Klaver and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How do concepts and constructions of the body shape people's experiences of agency and objectification within medical culture? As an object of scrutiny, the medicalized body occupies center stage in the work of doctors, nurses, medical examiners, and other medical professionals who mediate broader cultural understandings of pathology, illness, and the various physical transformations associated with life and death. The Body in Medical Culture explores how the body functions within medical culture and examines the metaphors and models of the body used to understand medical phenomena, including disease, diagnostic practices, wellness, anatomy, surgery, and medical research. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines engage representations of bodies, including polio and masculinity, sex reassignment surgery, drug marketing, endography, "designer vaginas," and hospital humor in order to challenge the normalcy of the passively objectified medicalized body.

Download or read book Policing Pregnant Bodies written by Kathleen M. Crowther and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the old medical and philosophical traditions that influence the politics of women's health and reproductive autonomy today"--

Download or read book The Economy of Health Or The Stream of Human Life Second Edition Enlarged and Improved written by James JOHNSON (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Treatises on Printing and Type founding written by Thomas Curson Hansard and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A treatise on geology the article under that head in the 7th ed of the Encyclop dia Britannica written by John Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: