Book ID: CBB001250854

Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present (2011)

unapi

Stephens, Elizabeth (Author)


Liverpool University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: viii + 166 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

From the eighteenth century to the present, public exhibitions of human anatomy have proved popular with a wide range of audiences. They have been marketed as educational for medical professionals and entertaining for the public. In Anatomy as Spectacle, Elizabeth Stephens takes us on a tour of freak shows and anatomical Venuses, museums doubling as dubious sex clinics, and the recent Body Worlds display, tracing the fascinating history of these exhibitions that gained popularity with the professionalization of medicine and rise of the popular spectacle. Far from marginal, public exhibitions of the body have much to tell us about the history of popular culture and medicine, and Anatomy as Spectacle situates these displays as productive cultural spaces for the emergence of new ideas about bodily health

...More
Reviewed By

Review Durbach, Nadja (2012) Review of "Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 389-390). unapi

Review Palfreyman, Harriet (2012) Review of "Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present". Medical History (pp. 409-410). unapi

Review MacDonald, Helen (2012) Review of "Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present". American Historical Review (pp. 1188-1189). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001250854/

Similar Citations

Book Andrew Graciano; (2019)
Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1800: Models and Modeling (/isis/citation/CBB806661384/)

Book Reis, Elizabeth; (2009)
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (/isis/citation/CBB001020415/)

Book Ferber, Sarah; Wilde, Sally; (2011)
The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human “Materials” in Modern Medical History (/isis/citation/CBB001200121/)

Book Stahnisch, Frank; Steger, Florian; (2005)
Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht: Körperhistorische Rekonstruktionen von Identitäten und Differenzen (/isis/citation/CBB000610391/)

Chapter Pettit, Fiona; (2012)
The Afterlife of Freak Shows (/isis/citation/CBB001250732/)

Article Francesca Monza; Silvia Iorio; (2018)
Bodies for science. The display of human statues for educational purposes (/isis/citation/CBB976027619/)

Book Mitchell, Robert; Thurtle, Phillip; (2004)
Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (/isis/citation/CBB000502019/)

Article Nicholas Binney; (2018)
The function of the heart is historically contingent (/isis/citation/CBB696611235/)

Article Rosagemma Ciliberti; Ezio Fulcheri; Paolo Petralia; Anna Siri; (2020)
Sharing ethics of displaying human remains in museums (/isis/citation/CBB019823834/)

Article Diederik F Janssen; (2020)
From Libidines nefandæ to sexual perversions (/isis/citation/CBB841736918/)

Book Elizabeth T. Hurren; (2021)
Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (/isis/citation/CBB995981550/)

Book Curran, Andrew S.; (2011)
The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (/isis/citation/CBB001250815/)

Article Schnalke, Thomas; (2004)
Dissected Limbs and the Integral Body: On Anatomical Wax Models and Medical Moulages (/isis/citation/CBB000500115/)

Book Hairston, Julia L.; Stephens, Walter; (2010)
The Body in Early Modern Italy (/isis/citation/CBB001035161/)

Book Jochen Hennig; Udo Andraschke; (2010)
WeltWissen: 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin (/isis/citation/CBB287068262/)

Authors & Contributors
Andraschke, Udo
Monza, Francesca
Luca Muscardin
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Binney, Nicholas
Fulcheri, Ezio
Concepts
Human body
Human anatomy
Medicine
Sexuality
Visual representation; visual communication
Medicine and gender
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Europe
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment