Ferber, Sarah (Editor)
Wilde, Sally (Editor)
Ashgate
Physical Details: xi + 249 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, as they took place in hospitals, universities, workhouses, asylums and museums in England, Australia and elsewhere. Through a series of case studies, the volume reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Buklijas, Tatjana (2013) Review of "The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 852).
Review Smith, Elise Juzda (2015) Review of "The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 208-211).
Chapter MacDonald, Helen (2011) A Body Buried Is a Body Wasted: The Spoils of Human Dissection. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 9).
Chapter Jones, Ross L. (2011) Cadavers and the Social Dimension of Dissection. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 29).
Chapter Martin, Susan K. (2011) Dissection, Anatomy Acts and the Appropriation of Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Australia: “The Government's Brains” and the Benevolent Asylum. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 53).
Chapter MacKinnon, Dolly (2011) Bodies of Evidence: Dissecting Madness in Colonial Victoria (Australia). In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 75).
Chapter Turnbull, Paul (2011) A Judicious Collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the Procurement of Aboriginal Bodily Remains in South Australia, c. 1880--1912. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 109).
Chapter Robertson, Jo (2011) The Leprosy-Affected Body as a Commodity: Autonomy and Compensation. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 131).
Chapter Wilde, Sally (2011) Gifts, Commodities and the Demand for Organ Transplants. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 165).
Chapter Marks, Nicola J. (2011) Science Fiction, Cultural Knowledge and Rationality: How Stem Cell Researchers Talk About Reproductive Cloning. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 191).
Chapter Stephens, Elizabeth (2011) Inventing the Healthy Body: The Use of Popular Medical Discourses in Public Anatomical Exhibitions. In: The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (p. 223).
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