A traffic of dead bodies : anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America / Michael Sappol.

Author/creator Sappol, Michael
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Dead--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century.
Human anatomy--United States. --History. --19th century.
Human dissection--United States. --History. --19th century.
Human body--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century.

Contents "The mysteries of the dead body" : death, embodiment, and social identity -- "A genuine zeal" : the anatomical era in American medicine -- "Anatomy is the charm" : dissection and medical identity in nineteenth-century America -- "A traffic of dead bodies" : the contested bioethics of anatomy in antebellum America -- "Indebted to the dissecting knife" : alternative medicine and anatomical consensus in antebellum America -- "The house I live in" : popular anatomy and embodied social identity in antebellum America -- "The foul altar of a dissecting table" : anatomy, sex, and sensationalist fiction at mid-century -- The education of Sammy Tubbs : anatomical dissection, minstrelsy, and the technology of self-making in postbellum America -- "Anatomy out of gear" : popular anatomy at the margins in late-nineteenth-century America.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-421) and index.
LCCN 2001021127
ISBN069105925X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780691059259 (alk. paper)

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