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A Traffic of Dead Bodies

Paperback • 2004 • English

A Traffic of Dead Bodies

By Michael Sappol

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About the book

A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social iden...Show more

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9780691118758

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

A Traffic of Dead Bodies

Format

Paperback

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