The body divided : human beings and human 'materials' in modern medical history
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The body divided : human beings and human 'materials' in modern medical history
(The history of medicine in context)
Ashgate, c2011
- : hardcover
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  Aomori
  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
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, as they took place in hospitals, universities, workhouses, asylums and museums in England, Australia and elsewhere. Through a series of case studies, the volume reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science.
Table of Contents
- Contents: The body divided in time and place: an introductory essay, Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde
- A body buried is a body wasted: the spoils of human dissection, Helen MacDonald
- Cadavers and the social dimension of dissection, Ross L. Jones
- Dissection, Anatomy Acts, and the appropriation of bodies in 19th-century Australia: 'the government's brains' and the benevolent asylum, Susan K. Martin
- Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia), Dolly MacKinnon
- A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia, c.1880-1912, Paul Turnbull
- The leprosy-affected body as a commodity: autonomy and compensation, Jo Robertson
- Gifts, commodities and the demand for organ transplants, Sally Wilde
- Science fiction, cultural knowledge and rationality: how stem cell researchers talk about reproductive cloning, Nicola J. Marks
- Inventing the healthy body: the use of popular medical disclosures in public anatomical exhibitions, Elizabeth Stephens
- Epilogue, Leo Brown
- Index.
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