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448 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691118758
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 25 April 2004
Description
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming...
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448 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691118758
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 25 April 2004
Description
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming...