Research Catalog

Title

The phantom museum : and Henry Wellcome's collection of medical curiosities / by Peter Blegvad ... [et al.] ; edited and with an introduction by Hildi Hawkins and Danielle Olsen.

Publication

London : Profile ; 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Blegvad, Peter.
• Hawkins, Hildi.
• Olsen, Danielle.

Description

xiv, 205 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Writing inspired by the medical, scientific and sometimes extraordinary contents of Henry Wellcome's remarkable museum, illuminating the history of human beings and their bodies. [NF].

Subject

• Wellcome, Henry S
• Wellcome, Henry S. Sir, 1853-1936
• Wellcome, Henry S. Sir, 1853-1936
• Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
• Medicine in the Arts
• History of Medicine
• Archaeology
• Museums
• Medicine > Miscellanea > Private collections
• Medical museums > London
• Medicine > Private collections

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• History

Note

• "An anthology of stories, true and imagined, inspired by objects from Henry Wellcome's museum"--P. [4] of cover.
• "Companion volume to the catalogue of an exhibition on Henry Wellcome's collection held at the British Museum in the summer of 2003"--P. viii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Hildi Hawkins and Danielle Olsen -- Body art / A.S. Byatt -- The collected / Hari Kunzru -- Phantom limbs, or The case of Captain Aubert and the Bengal tiger / Gaby Wood -- Milk / Peter Blegvad -- The Venus time of year / Helen Cleary -- Impossible things / Tobias Hill -- Wellcome's things.

ISBN

1861976186

OCLC

54806313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library