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Anatomy as Spectacle

Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present

Elizabeth Stephens

Anatomy as Spectacle
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166 pages | 17 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2011
Liverpool University Press - Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
Cloth $95.00 ISBN: 9781846316449 Published August 2011 For sale in North America only
Paper $34.95 ISBN: 9781846318740 Published August 2013 For sale in North America only
From the eighteenth century to the present, public exhibitions of human anatomy have proved popular with a wide range of audiences, being marketed as both educational and entertaining. In Anatomy as Spectacle, Elizabeth Stephens takes us on a tour of freak shows, anatomical Venuses, museums doubling as dubious sex clinics, and the recent Body Worlds display, tracing the fascinating history of these exhibitions that gained popularity alongside the professionalization of medicine and rise of the popular spectacle.
 
Far from marginal, public exhibitions of the body have much to tell us about the history of popular culture and medicine, and Anatomy as Spectacle situates these displays as productive cultural spaces for the emergence of new ideas about bodily health.
Maria Frawley | George Washington University

“A pleasure to read, this well-written book offers many thoughtful and provocative reflections on anatomy and exhibition and will appeal to a wide range of scholars concerned with disability, culture, and medical history.”

Choice
“A strong story, well documented and scholarly.”
Harriet Palfreyman | Medical History
“Anatomy as Spectacle succeeds in presenting the history of anatomy as one of the spectacular as much as the medical, demonstrating the vital role that exhibitions played in the history of the discipline. Stephen’s work fits into the phalanx of academics working on visual and material cultures of medicine, arguing that these exhibitions were never mere illustration, but that they played vital roles in the production, as well as transmission, of contemporary ideas and understandings of the body.” 
Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1.The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions
2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century “Museums of Anatomy” and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic
3. From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition
4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Écorché Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens’ Body Worlds
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

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