Wax anatomical models became popular in the eighteenth century and have recently attracted considerable attention. Malleable Anatomies builds on and expands this body of scholarship by focusing primarily on Bologna and the collections that were brought together at the local Institute of the Sciences. Relying on impressive archival research based on dozens of manuscript collections from Malta to London, Lucia Dacome has produced a meticulously researched and richly illustrated series of microhistories that bring to life the processes of creation and circulation of wax models. These collections were a major source of civic pride: they were inspected by visiting anatomists and city surgeons and were studied and handled by local midwives, but they were also displayed in order to attract travelers on the Grand Tour. Dacome’s especially rich investigation of the last group provides valuable documentation of contemporary perspectives.