The fate of anatomical collections
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The fate of anatomical collections
(The history of medicine in context)
Ashgate, c2015
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
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  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
Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them. In many institutions these collections are well-preserved, but in others they are poorly maintained and rendered inaccessible to medical and other audiences. This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant not only for future generations of medical faculty and future research, but they are also important in the history of medicine, the history of the institutions to which they belong, and to the wider understanding of the cultural history of the body. Moreover, anatomical collections are crucial to new scholarly inter-disciplinary studies that investigate the interaction between arts and sciences, especially medicine, and offer a venue for the study of interactions between anatomists, scientists, anatomical artists and other groups, as well as the display and presentation of natural history and medical cabinets. In considering the fate of anatomical collections - and the importance of the keeper's decisions with respect to collections - this volume will make an important methodological contribution to the study of collections and to discussions on how to preserve universities' academic heritage.
Table of Contents
- I: Introduction
- 1: Setting the Stage
- 2: Organ Music
- II: Fated Collections
- 3: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Or, What Richard Owen did to John Hunter's Collection
- 4: Gender, Fate and McGill University's Medical Collections
- 5: Resilient Collections
- 6: Inside the Charnel House
- III: Preparations, Models and Users
- 7: Adieu Albinus
- 8: User-Developers, Model Students and Ambassador Users
- 9: Mapping Anatomical Collections in Nineteenth-Century Vienna
- 10: Fall and Rise of the Roca Museum
- IV: Provenance and Fate
- 11: The Fate of the Beaded Babies
- 12: 'Not Everything that Says Java is from Java'
- 13: Cataloguing Collections
- V: Museum and Collection Practices Today
- 14: Anatomical Craft
- 15: Restoration Reconsidered
- 16: From Bottled Babies to Biobanks
- 17: Ball Pool Anatomy
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