1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00268001

Autore

PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista

Titolo

Piranesi / John Wilton-Ely

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Electa, c1994

Edizione

[2a. ed]

Descrizione fisica

319 p. : ill. ; 29 cm

Disciplina

720.9

Soggetti

PIRANESI GIOVANNI BATTISTA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482980203321

Autore

Claes Tinne

Titolo

Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860-1914 : Nobody's Dead / / by Tinne Claes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030201159

3030201155

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History, , 2947-9150

Disciplina

629.282

611.009493

Soggetti

Europe, Central - History

Medicine - History

Science - History

Civilization - History

Social history

History of Germany and Central Europe

History of Medicine

History of Science

Cultural History

Social History



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Anatomy is Done? -- 3 From Deathbed to Dissecting Table: Acquiring Anatomical Material -- 4 Under the Scalpel: Dividing the Body -- 5 The Jar and the Coffin: Keeping and Disposing of the Dead -- 6 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with insights that easily go beyond the history of anatomy and the specific case of Belgium. From acquisition to disposal, the trajectories of the corpse changed under the influence of social policies, ideological tensions, religious sensitivities, cultures of death and broader changes in the field of medical ethics. Anatomists increasingly had to reconcile their ways with the diverse meanings that the dead body held. To a certain extent, as this book argues, they started to treat the corpse as subject rather than object. Interweaving broad historical evolutions with detailed case studies, this book offers unique insights into a field dominated by Anglo-American perspectives, evaluating the similaritiesand differences within other European contexts.