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Medicine : an imperfect science / edited by Nayasha McEnroe.
- Title
- Medicine : an imperfect science / edited by Nayasha McEnroe.
- Publication
- London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | R856.A5 M43 2019g | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McEnroe, Natasha,
- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 x 25 cm
- Summary
- In autumn 2019 a spectacular suite of new Medicine galleries is due to open at the Science Museum in London, representing the biggest and most ambitious project that the Museum has ever undertaken. This permanent exhibition will include the historic collection of Henry Wellcome, whose personal treasure trove has been on long-term loan to the Museum for over 40 years, as well as the Science Museum's own medical holdings. 'Medicine: An Imperfect Science' is formed of stand-alone but connected chapters, generously illustrated, within which a rich history of medicine collecting can be found. New permanent exhibition: Science Museum, London, UK (opening 16.11.2019).
- Subject
- Biomedical Technology > history
- Medical instruments and apparatus > Exhibitions
- Medical instruments and apparatus > History > Catalogs
- Medical instruments and apparatus > Private collections > Exhibitions
- Medical instruments and apparatus > Private collections
- Medical instruments and apparatus
- Medizin
- Medizinisches Instrument
- Science Museum (Great Britain)
- Science Museum (Great Britain) > Exhibitions
- Science Museum London
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogues.
- History.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, London, opening November 16, 2019
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Director's foreword / Ian Blatchford -- Funders' forewords / Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Peter Luff, Pauline Williams -- Preface / Natasha McEnroe -- 1. Collecting medicine: routes and roots of medicine at the Science Museum / Selina Hurley -- 2. Prostheses at the Science Museum: peg-legs, pylons and the pianist's arm / Stewart Emmens -- 3. The problematic body: dissection and the rise of the anatomy school / Anna Maerker -- 4. The child in the iron lung: polio, public health and protection / Natasha McEnroe -- 5. Created through conflict: the development of military medicine / jack Davies -- 6. Preventing cervical cancer: vaginas, vaccination and veneral disease / Emma Stirling-Middleton -- 7. Hearing distant voices: psychiatry, asylums and the limits of history / Oisín Wall -- 8. The pharmacy shop: 'a great rage for mahogany, varnish and expensive floor-cloth' / Briony Hudson -- 9. Modelling life: exploring the human body / Muriel Bailly -- 10. Emotional objects: faith and feeling in the medicine collection / Sarah Bond.
- ISBN
- 1785512102
- 9781785512100
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries