A Traffic of Dead Bodies : : Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America / / Michael Sappol.

• VerfasserIn: Sappol, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 intr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Introduction
• 1. "The Mysteries of the Dead Body": Death, Embodiment, and Social Identity
• 2. "A Genuine Zeal": The Anatomical Era in American Medicine
• 3. "Anatomy Is the Charm": Dissection and Medical Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
• 4. "A Traffic of Dead Bodies": The Contested Bioethics of Anatomy in Antebellum America
• 5. "Indebted to the Dissecting Knife": Alternative Medicine and Anatomical Consensus in Antebellum America
• 6. "The House I Live In": Popular Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Antebellum America
• 7. "The Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table": Anatomy, Sex, and Sensationalist Fiction at Mid-Century
• 8. The Education of Sammy Tubbs: Anatomical Dissection, Minstrelsy, and the Technology of Self-Making in Postbellum America
• 9. "Anatomy Out of Gear": Popular Anatomy at the Margins in Late Nineteenth-Century America
• Conclusion
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX