Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti

Morbid Curiosities is the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums in Britain. It traces the afterlives of diseased body parts, asking how they came to be in these collections, what happened to them there, and who used them.

Pathologists dismembered the dead body and preserved it, whether by injection or by storage in fluid, thereby transforming it into material culture. Thus fragmented body parts followed complex paths...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199584583
• ISBN13: 9780199584581
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"