03488nam 2200721Ia 450 991097168410332120200520144314.0978079148342807914834289781423744108142374410110.1515/9780791483428(CKB)1000000000458803(OCoLC)461442168(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579182(SSID)ssj0000246413(PQKBManifestationID)11192222(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246413(PQKBWorkID)10180325(PQKB)11594696(OCoLC)62734696(MdBmJHUP)muse6274(Au-PeEL)EBL3407759(CaPaEBR)ebr10579182(OCoLC)923409433(DE-B1597)683848(DE-B1597)9780791483428(MiAaPQ)EBC3407759(Perlego)2674034(EXLCZ)99100000000045880320040423d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSites of autopsy in contemporary culture /Elizabeth Klaver1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20051 online resource (193 p.) The SUNY series in postmodern cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791464267 0791464261 9780791464250 0791464253 Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Autopsy -- Performance, Autopsy, and the Performative -- Autopsy and the Subject; or, What the Dead Saw -- Autopsy and the Social -- Autopsy and the Popular -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexIn this compelling interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the "real" thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of pedagogical, legal, scientific, and social functions, and the autopsied cadaver, Klaver shows, has lately become one of the most spectacular bodies offered up to the public on film, television, and the Internet. Setting her discussion within the history of the modern autopsy, and including the narrative of her own attendance at a medical autopsy, Klaver makes the autopsy readable in a number of diverse venues, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson and Vesalius's Fabrica to The Silence of the Lambs, The X-Files, and CSI. Moving from the actual autopsy itself to its broader symbolic ramifications, Klaver addresses questions as disparate as the social constructedness of the body, the perception and treatment of death under late capitalism, and the ubiquity of paranoia in contemporary culture.SUNY series in postmodern culture.AutopsySocial aspectsAutopsyHistoryAutopsySocial aspects.AutopsyHistory.616.07/59Klaver Elizabeth1809216MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971684103321Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture4359891UNINA