Cuerpos mostrados
Subtitle: regímenes de exhibición de lo humano : Barcelona y Madrid, siglos XVII-XX
By: coordinador, José Pardo-Tomás, Alfons Zarzoso, Mauricio Sánchez Menchero
Series: Ciencia y técnica; Ciencia y técnica (Mexico City, Mexico)
Publisher: Anthropos; Siglo XXI Editores
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Barcelona; Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788417556228; 9786070309519; 9786073013802
Subjects: Human anatomy; Study and teaching; History; Anatomical museums; Artistic Anatomy
Description: A story of "longue durée" of the exhibition regimes of the human and the human body. From the cabinets of curiosities of the 17nth and 18th centuries to university classrooms of the 20th century, through surgery colleges, colonial exhibitions, circuses and cemeteries of the 19th century. A volume with dozens of color illustrations and 9 case studies focused on Barcelona and Madrid allow us to approach with a historical look the current controversies about the exhibition of human bodies in museums and other public spaces. "In our time, while debates are taking place around the exhibition of human remains in museums, we attend the public success of exhibits of human remains halfway between scientific dissemination and the entertainment business. This book brings together various historical studies that allow a plurality of approaches to changing social and cultural conditions that have known the circulation and exhibition of human remains from "real" bodies, and their representations, as well as the arguments that justify them or question." (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducción; title: Gabinetes; title: Aulas; title: Exposiciones; title: Epílogo.