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A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy And Embodied Social Identity In Nineteenth-Century America
Michael Sappol
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Description for A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy And Embodied Social Identity In Nineteenth-Century America
Paperback. Shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. This book introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. Num Pages: 448 pages, 83 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 183 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, ... Read more
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
654g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691118758
SKU
V9780691118758
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About Michael Sappol
Michael Sappol holds a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University, where he was a finalist for the Bancroft Dissertation Award and a winner of the Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. He is Curator at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Reviews for A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy And Embodied Social Identity In Nineteenth-Century America
A groundbreaking new book... One of Sappol's great accomplishments in this dazzling book is his creation of a new lens to view ... well-known
and some lesser-known
episodes [in medical history]... With considerable verve and penetration, he explores orthodox anatomy in American medical education... Sappol reminds us that we continue to pursue the construction and negotiation of the boundaries of our bodies ... Read more
and some lesser-known
episodes [in medical history]... With considerable verve and penetration, he explores orthodox anatomy in American medical education... Sappol reminds us that we continue to pursue the construction and negotiation of the boundaries of our bodies ... Read more