Anatomy as spectacle : public exhibitions of the body from 1700 to the present

Anatomy as spectacle : public exhibitions of the body from 1700 to the present /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stephens, Elizabeth, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Series:	Representations (Liverpool, England)
Subjects:	Anatomical museums > History. Anatomical specimens > Exhibitions > History. Anatomical specimens > Social aspects > History. Freak shows > History. Anatomy > history Exhibitions as Topic Disabled Persons > history History, Modern 1601-

Table of Contents:

The docile subject of anatomy: gynomorphic waxworks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century public exhibitions
Lost manhood: turn-of-a-century "museums of anatomy" and the spermatorrhoea epidemic
From the freak to the disabled person: anatomical difference as public spectacle and private condition
Inventing the bodily interior: écorché figures in early modern anatomy and von Hagens' Body Worlds.