The body divided : human beings and human 'materials' in modern medical history / edited by Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde.
| Other author | Ferber, Sarah, 1957- |
| Other author | Wilde, Sally, 1949- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011. |
| Description | xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The history of medicine in context History of medicine in context. ^A518919 |
| Contents | The body divided in time and place: an introductory essay / Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde -- 1. A body buried is a body wasted: the spoils of human dissection / Helen MacDonald -- 2. Cadavers and the social dimension of dissection / Ross L. Jones -- 3. Dissection, anatomy acts and the appropriation of bodies in nineteenth-century Australia: "the government's brains" and the benevolent asylum / Susan K. Martin -- 4. Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia) / Dolly MacKinnon -- 5. A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia, c. 1880-1912 / Paul Turnbull -- 6. The leprosy-affected body as a commodity: autonomy and compensation / Jo Robertson -- 7. Gifts, commodities and the demand for organ transplants / Sally Wilde -- 8. Science fiction, cultural knowledge and rationality: how stem cell researchers talk about reproductive cloning / Nicola J. Marks -- 9. Inventing the healthy body: the use of popular medical discourses in public anatomical exhibitions / Elizabeth Stephens -- Epilogue / Leo Brown. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011026574 |
| ISBN | 9780754668343 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754668347 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754694816 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 075469481X (ebook) |
| Standard identifier# | 40020606715 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | QS 11 KA8 B668 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |