Swallow : foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them

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    • Cappello, Mary

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Swallow : foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them

Mary Cappello

New Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-276) and index

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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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