Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present: Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
Autor Elizabeth Stephensen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2013
From the eighteenth century to the present, public exhibitions of human anatomy have proved popular with a wide range of audiences, being marketed as both educational and entertaining. In Anatomy as Spectacle, Elizabeth Stephens takes us on a tour of freak shows, anatomical Venuses, museums doubling as dubious sex clinics, and the recent Body Worlds display, tracing the fascinating history of these exhibitions that gained popularity alongside the professionalization of medicine and rise of the popular spectacle.
Far from marginal, public exhibitions of the body have much to tell us about the history of popular culture and medicine, and Anatomy as Spectacle situates these displays as productive cultural spaces for the emergence of new ideas about bodily health.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846318740
ISBN-10: 1846318742
Pagini: 166
Ilustrații: 17 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
Colecția Liverpool University Press
Seria Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
ISBN-10: 1846318742
Pagini: 166
Ilustrații: 17 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
Colecția Liverpool University Press
Seria Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
Notă biografică
Elizabeth Stephens is an Australian Research Council fellow at the University of Queenland.
Cuprins
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions
2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century “Museums of Anatomy” and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic
3. From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition
4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Écorché Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens’ Body Worlds
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions
2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century “Museums of Anatomy” and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic
3. From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition
4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Écorché Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens’ Body Worlds
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“A pleasure to read, this well-written book offers many thoughtful and provocative reflections on anatomy and exhibition and will appeal to a wide range of scholars concerned with disability, culture, and medical history.”
“A strong story, well documented and scholarly.”
“Anatomy of Spectacle makes an important contribution to the history of science by underscoring the crucial place of cultural history within the discipline. Stephen’s use of visual and material sources demonstrates the ways in which a close reading of these types of ‘texts’ challenges received narratives about the professionalization of science.”
“Anatomy as Spectacle succeeds in presenting the history of anatomy as one of the spectacular as much as the medical, demonstrating the vital role that exhibitions played in the history of the discipline. Stephen’s work fits into the phalanx of academics working on visual and material cultures of medicine, arguing that these exhibitions were never mere illustration, but that they played vital roles in the production, as well as transmission, of contemporary ideas and understandings of the body.”