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Title

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

Author

Sappol, Michael.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xii, 430 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Dead > History > United States > 19th century
• Human anatomy > United States > History > 19th century
• Human dissection > United States > History > 19th century
• Human body > History > United States > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-421) and index.

Contents

1. "The Mysteries of the Dead Body": Death, Embodiment, and Social Identity -- 2. "A Genuine Zeal": The Anatomical Era in American Medicine -- 3. "Anatomy Is the Charm": Dissection and Medical Identity in Nineteenth-Century America -- 4. "A Traffic of Dead Bodies": The Contested Bioethics of Anatomy in Antebellum America -- 5. "Indebted to the Dissecting Knife": Alternative Medicine and Anatomical Consensus in Antebellum America -- 6. "The House I Live In": Popular Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Antebellum America -- 7. "The Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table": Anatomy, Sex, and Sensationalist Fiction at Mid-Century -- 8. The Education of Sammy Tubbs: Anatomical Dissection, Minstrelsy, and the Technology of Self-Making in Postbellum America -- 9. "Anatomy Out of Gear": Popular Anatomy at the Margins in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.

ISBN

069105925X (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2001021127
• R5-281011

OCLC

• 48363138
• ocm48363138
• SCSB-4307719

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries