Morbid curiosities : medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain
Alberti, Samuel J. M. MAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
'Morbid Curiosities' is a comprehensive study of 19th-century medical museums in Britain. This book looks at the variety of collections of human remains in Britain and is a history of the material culture of medical knowledge.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
'Morbid Curiosities' is a comprehensive study of 19th-century medical museums in Britain. This book looks at the variety of collections of human remains in Britain and is a history of the material culture of medical knowledge.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medical museums
Exhibitions
Archives
Culture
Art
Embryology
Humanities
History, Modern 1601-
Medicine
Health Occupations
Anatomy
Anthropology, Cultural
Developmental Biology
Occupations
Anthropology
Biology
Biological Science Disciplines
Social Sciences
Natural Science Disciplines
History, 19th Century
Museums
Human Body
Teratology
History
Pathology
Medicine
Health & Biological Sciences
Medicine - General