Medical museums
Subtitle: past, present, future
By: edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti and Elizabeth Hallam
Contributors: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781904096214
Subjects: Medical museums; Museums; Health and Wellbeing
Description: This title brings together curators and scholars to open up new perspectives on the past, present and future of medical museums in Europe and North America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bodies in museums / Elizabeth Hallam and Samuel J.M.M. Alberti; title: The organic museum: the Hunterian and other collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti; title: Museums within a museum: Surgeons' Hall, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh / Chris Henry; title: Disappearing museums? Medical collections at the University of Aberdeen / Elizabeth Hallam; title: Medicine at the Science Museum, London / Robert Bud; title: Recycling anatomical preparations: Leiden's anatomical collections / Marieke Hendriksen, Hieke Huistra and Rina Knoeff; title: Anatomy and public enlightenment: the Florentine Museo 'La Specola' / Anna Maerker; title: Making space for specimens: the museums of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm / Eva Åhrén; title: The Museum of the History of Medicine in Zurich / Flurin Condrau; title: Tracing life: the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité / Thomas Schnalke; title: Biomedicine on display: Copenhagen's Medical Museion / Thomas Söderqvist and Bente Vinge Pedersen; title: The Dittrick: from doctors' museum to medical history centre / James M. Edmonson; title: The disturbingly informative Mütter Museum / Robert D. Hicks; title: An army museum or a national collection? Shifting interests and fortunes at the National Museum of Health and Medicine / Michael Rhode; title: Collecting medical technology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History / Judy M. Chelnik; title: Morbid anatomy / Joanna Ebenstein; title: Afterword: Wellcome Collection and the post-medical museum? / Ken Arnold and Simon Chaplin.