Swallow : foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them
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Swallow : foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them
New Press, 2011
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Combining original research with a sympathetic and evocative sensibility, award-winning author Mary Cappello restores the narratives, lives and desires of the physician-artist Dr. Chevalier Jackson and his patients that haunt the uncanny collection of items which have been swallowed (both accidentally and deliberately) at the world famous Mutter Museum. Swallow journeys deep into the nature of human experience, both as a literary and psychological exploration which uncovers rather than gawks at sword swallowers and women who lunch on hardware.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
I. Who Was That Man?
Alone on Floor with Pile of Buttons
Remembering Forward: The Idea of a Legacy
Fbdy #C804, Case #3268, X-rays #48451C and 48460C: The Case of Andrew C.
A Peculiar Chap
"The Life of Chevalier Jackson": Early Prototypes of Rescue
II. How Does Someone Swallow That?
Between Carelessness and Desire: Getting Objects Down
Chevalier Jackson's Traumatic "Phases"
A Catastrophe of Childhood: Gastric Lavage
Chevalier Jackson's Tears: The Case of the Boy Who Cried
Fbdy (multiple) #1173: Gavage: The Case of Joseph B.
Fbdy #2440: A Perfect Attendance Pin, or "Threats to Doctor Jackson's Life"
"Strange Things Were on the Run from Mary's Deepest Depths": Hardware. Swords.
Scopes.
III. What Are These Things?
Fbdy #565: The Case of Margaret Derryberry: Objects Lost and Found and Lost, Again
Object Lessons
Instrumentality and Instruments as Things
Modernist Portals and Secular Tabernacles: Chevalier Jackson Meets Joseph
Cornell
IV. Epilogue
Mystery Bones and the Un-recovered Boy
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