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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
430

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Subjects
Human Body, Social aspects of the Human body, Dead, Social aspects of Dead, Human dissection, Human anatomy, History, Human body, social aspects, Human body, Social aspects
Places
United States
Times
19th century

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Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
2018, Princeton University Press
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A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
April 5, 2004, Princeton University Press
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A traffic of dead bodies: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction
1. 'The Mysteries of the Dead Body": Death, Embodiment, and Social Identity
2. "A Genuine Zeal": The Anatomical Era in American Medicine
3. "Anatomy Is the Charm": Dissection and Medical Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
4. "A Traffic of Dead Bodies": The Contested Bioethics of Anatomy in Antebellum America
5. "Indebted to the Dissecting Knife": Alternative Medicine and Anatomical Consensus in Antebellum America
6. "The House I Live In": Popular Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Antebellum America
7. 'The Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table": Anatomy, Sex, and Sensationalist Fiction at Mid-Century
8. The Education of Sammy Tubbs: Anatomical Dissection, Minstrelsy,and the Technology of Self-Making in Postbellum America
9. "Anatomy Out of Gear": Popular Anatomy at the Margins in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-421) and index.

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RA619 .S37 2002, R619

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xii, 430 p. :
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