Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Samuel J. M. M. Alberti

Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Samuel J. M. M. Alberti

238 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history dark informative medium-paced

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Morbid Curiosities is the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums in Britain. It traces the afterlives of diseased body parts, asking how they came to be in these collections, what happened to them there, and who used them....

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