Human remains
Subtitle: medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris
By: Jonathan Strauss
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Forms of living
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823233793; 9780823233809
Subjects: Medicine; Death; Social conditions; Public health; Human body; Dead; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicine and authority; title: The medical uses of nonsense; title: A hostile environment; title: Death comes alive; title: Pleasure in revolt; title: Monsters and artists; title: Abstracting desire; title: What abjection means.