Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236042
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 523
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The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with their incredible technological developments and complex uses of visual images and the flesh itself remaining largely under researched. This book investigates anatomy museums in Western settings, revealing how they have operated in the often passionate pursuit of knowledge that inspires both fascination and fear. Elizabeth Hallam explores these museums, past and present, showing how they display the human body—whether naked, stripped of skin, completely dissected, or rendered in the form of drawings, three-dimensional models, x-rays, or films. She identifies within anatomy museums a diverse array of related issues—from the representation of deceased bodies in art to the aesthetics of science, from body donation to techniques for preserving corpses and ritualized practices for disposing of the dead. Probing these matters through in-depth study, Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history of the spaces human bodies are made to occupy when displayed after death.
Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861893752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hidden from the public eye. Elizabeth Hallam here investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. Hallam explores the history of these museums and how they operate in the current cultural environment. Their regulated access increasingly clashes with evolving public mores toward the exposed body, as demonstrated by the international popularity of the Body Worlds exhibition. The book examines such related topics as artistic works that employ the images of dead bodies and the larger ongoing debate over the disposal of corpses. Issues such as aesthetics and science, organ and body donations, and the dead body in Western religion and ritual are also discussed here in fascinating depth. The Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history that investigates the ideas of preservation, human rituals of death, and the spaces that our bodies occupy in this life and beyond.
Author: John Adam Ryder
Publisher:
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Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Horace Middleton Vernon
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Natural history museums
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Francis Joseph Cole
Publisher:
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Category : Anatomical museums
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: Harvard University. Warren Anatomical Museum
Publisher:
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Category : Anatomical museums
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Author: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
Publisher:
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Category : College student newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Vols. 1-26 include a supplement: The University pulpit, vols. [1]-26, no. 1-661, which has separate pagination but is indexed in the main vol.
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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