Samuel J. M. Alberti, Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Samuel Alberti’s Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a very recently published study which lifts the veil on the construction of medical museums in the nineteenth century. The book throws light on medical museums as part of nineteenth-century cultures of display and...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Miranda
2013
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Samuel Alberti’s Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a very recently published study which lifts the veil on the construction of medical museums in the nineteenth century. The book throws light on medical museums as part of nineteenth-century cultures of display and the development of a medical marketplace. Indeed, because they exhibited diseased body parts which were also circulated as commodities, medical museums offer good examples of the links between sci... |
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