Author: Eugenia Pacitti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350373737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.
The Body Collected in Australia
Author: Eugenia Pacitti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350373737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350373737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.
The Body Collected in Australia
Author: Eugenia Pacitti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350373745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350373745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day. The Body Collected in Australia is a cultural history of collectors and collections that deepens our understanding of the ways the living have used the dead to comprehend the intricacies of the human body in illness and good health.
Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria
Author: Victoria Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Melbourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria
Author: National Gallery of Victoria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria
Author: National Museum (Vic.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief
Author: Alexandra Roginski
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
ISBN: 1922235660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man’s skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person’s head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton’s collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. The Hanged Man and the Body Thief is a nuanced story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of a new museum, and the dilemmas of a theatrical third wife. It is most importantly a tale of two very different men, collector and collected, one of whom can now return home.
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
ISBN: 1922235660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man’s skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person’s head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton’s collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. The Hanged Man and the Body Thief is a nuanced story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of a new museum, and the dilemmas of a theatrical third wife. It is most importantly a tale of two very different men, collector and collected, one of whom can now return home.
Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous-Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hemiptera
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hemiptera
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Science, National Identity and Aboriginal Body Snatching in Nineteenth Century Australia
Author: Paul Turnbull
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855070349
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855070349
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum
Author: Charles Swinhoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Oxford University Museum collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Oxford University Museum collection.
Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum
Author: Francis Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description