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04354aam a2200649 i 4500 001 27286008D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171205010050 008 170519t20172017iaua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017005979 020 $a 160938539X 020 $a 9781609385392 035 $a (OCoLC)983824370 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NDD $d INU $d GSU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3242.B58 $b T84 2017 082 00 $a 811/.3 $2 23 084 $a HIS036050 $a HIS036050 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Tuggle, Lindsay, $e author. 245 14 $a The afterlives of specimens : $b science, mourning, and Whitman's Civil War / $c Lindsay Tuggle. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 254 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The Iowa Whitman series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index. 505 0 $a Tomb leaves: the anatomy of regeneration -- Specimen cases: from hospital to museum -- Phantoms of countless lost: the nostalgia of absent limbs -- Skeleton leaves: embalming elegies -- Autopsy and afterlife: anatomical celebrity. 520 $a "The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver became both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence. Walt Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living and the dead. In the space of a few decades, dissection evolved from a posthumous punishment inflicted on criminals to an element of preservationist technology worthy of the presidential corpse of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman transitioned from a fervent opponent of medical bodysnatching to a literary celebrity who left behind instructions for his own autopsy, including the removal of his brain for scientific study. Grounded in archival discoveries, Afterlives traces the origins of nineteenth-century America's preservation compulsion, illuminating the influences of botanical, medical, spiritualist, and sentimental discourses on Whitman's work. Tuggle unveils previously unrecognized connections between Whitman and the leading "medical men" of his era, such as the surgeon John H. Brinton, founding curator of the Army Medical Museum, and Silas Weir Mitchell, the neurologist who discovered phantom limb syndrome. Remains from several amputee soldiers whom Whitman nursed in the Washington hospitals became specimens in the Army Medical Museum. Tuggle is the first scholar to analyze Whitman's role in medically memorializing the human cadaver and its abandoned parts."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Whitman, Walt, $d 1819-1892 $x Anatomy. $x Anatomy. 600 10 $a Whitman, Walt, $d 1819-1892 $x Medicine. $x Medicine. 600 17 $a Whitman, Walt, $d 1819-1892. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00039575 650 0 $a Human body in literature. 650 0 $a Dead in literature. 650 0 $a Death in literature. 650 0 $a Dead $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Human anatomy $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and medicine $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Anatomy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00808440 650 7 $a Dead in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888420 650 7 $a Dead $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888401 650 7 $a Death in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888697 650 7 $a Human anatomy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962785 650 7 $a Human body in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899762 650 7 $a Literature and medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000080 650 7 $a Literature and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000093 650 7 $a Medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01014893 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Iowa Whitman series. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020014534.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171205012617.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=27286008D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search