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Author:

Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.

Title:

Morbid curiosities : medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiii, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Medical museums--History.
Exhibitions--History.
Great Britain.
Museums--history--Great Britain.
Pathology--history--Great Britain.
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
Human Body--Great Britain.
Teratology--history--Great Britain.
Natuurwetenschappelijke musea.
Geneeskunde.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index.

Summary:

'Morbid Curiosities' is a comprehensive study of 19th-century medical museums in Britain. This book looks at the variety of collections of human remains in Britain and is a history of the material culture of medical knowledge.

ISBN:

0199584583
9780199584581

OCLC:

(OCoLC)687683424

LCCN:

2011499165

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)