Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / / Elizabeth Klaver
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| Autore: |
Klaver Elizabeth
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| Titolo: |
Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / / Elizabeth Klaver
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.07/59 |
| Soggetto topico: | Autopsy - Social aspects |
| Autopsy - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture |
| ISBN: | 9780791483428 |
| 0791483428 | |
| 9781423744108 | |
| 1423744101 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910971684103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series in postmodern culture.