LEADER 03488nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910971684103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791483428 010 $a0791483428 010 $a9781423744108 010 $a1423744101 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791483428 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458803 035 $a(OCoLC)461442168 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246413 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246413 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10180325 035 $a(PQKB)11594696 035 $a(OCoLC)62734696 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6274 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407759 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579182 035 $a(OCoLC)923409433 035 $a(DE-B1597)683848 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791483428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407759 035 $a(Perlego)2674034 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458803 100 $a20040423d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSites of autopsy in contemporary culture /$fElizabeth Klaver 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aThe SUNY series in postmodern culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791464267 311 08$a0791464261 311 08$a9780791464250 311 08$a0791464253 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tAutopsy -- $tPerformance, Autopsy, and the Performative -- $tAutopsy and the Subject; or, What the Dead Saw -- $tAutopsy and the Social -- $tAutopsy and the Popular -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn this compelling interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the "real" thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of pedagogical, legal, scientific, and social functions, and the autopsied cadaver, Klaver shows, has lately become one of the most spectacular bodies offered up to the public on film, television, and the Internet. Setting her discussion within the history of the modern autopsy, and including the narrative of her own attendance at a medical autopsy, Klaver makes the autopsy readable in a number of diverse venues, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson and Vesalius's Fabrica to The Silence of the Lambs, The X-Files, and CSI. Moving from the actual autopsy itself to its broader symbolic ramifications, Klaver addresses questions as disparate as the social constructedness of the body, the perception and treatment of death under late capitalism, and the ubiquity of paranoia in contemporary culture. 410 0$aSUNY series in postmodern culture. 606 $aAutopsy$xSocial aspects 606 $aAutopsy$xHistory 615 0$aAutopsy$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aAutopsy$xHistory. 676 $a616.07/59 700 $aKlaver$b Elizabeth$01809216 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971684103321 996 $aSites of autopsy in contemporary culture$94359891 997 $aUNINA