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Author Stephens, Elizabeth, 1969-

Title Anatomy as spectacle : public exhibitions of the body from 1700 to the present / Elizabeth Stephens
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011

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Description viii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Series Representations : health, disability, culture
Representations (Liverpool, England)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions -- 2.Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century "Museums of Anatomy" and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic -- 3.From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition -- 4.Inventing the Bodily Interior: Ecorche Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens' Body Worlds
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-162) and index
Subject Anatomical museums -- History.
Anatomical specimens -- Exhibitions -- History.
Anatomical specimens -- Social aspects -- History.
Freak shows -- History.
Anatomy -- history.
Disabled Persons -- history.
ISBN 1846316448
9781846316449 (hbk)