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Book The Body Collected in Australia

Download or read book The Body Collected in Australia written by Eugenia Pacitti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.

Book The Body Collected in Australia

Download or read book The Body Collected in Australia written by Eugenia Pacitti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.

Book Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria

Download or read book Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria written by Victoria Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Melbourne and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria

Download or read book Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria written by National Gallery of Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hanged Man and the Body Thief

Download or read book The Hanged Man and the Body Thief written by Alexandra Roginski and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man’s skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person’s head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton’s collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. The Hanged Man and the Body Thief is a nuanced story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of a new museum, and the dilemmas of a theatrical third wife. It is most importantly a tale of two very different men, collector and collected, one of whom can now return home.

Book Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum written by Charles Swinhoe and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Oxford University Museum collection.

Book Early Sydney

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  • Author : A. G. Foster
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  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Early Sydney written by A. G. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected Reprints

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  • Author : William Blanchard Marshall
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  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Collected Reprints written by William Blanchard Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia

Download or read book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected papers

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  • Author : William Blanchard Marshall
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  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Collected papers written by William Blanchard Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected Papers

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  • Author : Joseph Barrell
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  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Collected Papers written by Joseph Barrell and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: