A traffic of dead bodies
Subtitle: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America
By: Michael Sappol.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Dead -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Human anatomy -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Human dissection -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-421) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1. 'The Mysteries of the Dead Body": Death, Embodiment, and Social Identity; title: 2. "A Genuine Zeal": The Anatomical Era in American Medicine; title: 3. "Anatomy Is the Charm": Dissection and Medical Identity in Nineteenth-Century America; title: 4. "A Traffic of Dead Bodies": The Contested Bioethics of Anatomy in Antebellum America; title: 5. "Indebted to the Dissecting Knife": Alternative Medicine and Anatomical Consensus in Antebellum America; title: 6. "The House I Live In": Popular Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Antebellum America; title: 7. 'The Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table": Anatomy, Sex, and Sensationalist Fiction at Mid-Century; title: 8. The Education of Sammy Tubbs: Anatomical Dissection, Minstrelsy,and the Technology of Self-Making in Postbellum America; title: 9. "Anatomy Out of Gear": Popular Anatomy at the Margins in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.