The afterlives of specimens : science, mourning, and Whitman's Civil War / Lindsay Tuggle.
The afterlives of specimens : science, mourning, and Whitman's Civil War / Lindsay Tuggle.
The afterlives of specimens : science, mourning, and Whitman's Civil War / Lindsay Tuggle.
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Publisher
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
Call Numbers
H 2018/1508
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Specimen interiors : an introduction -- Tomb leaves : the anatomy of regeneration -- Specimen cases : from hospital to museum -- Phantoms of countless lost : the nostalgia of absent limbs -- Skeleton leaves : embalming elegies -- Autopsy and afterlife : anatomical celebrity.
Publication information
Publisher
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
Series
Place of Publication
Iowa
Date Published
[2017]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver became both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence. Walt Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living and the dead. In the space of a few decades, dissection evolved from a posthumous punishment...
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The afterlives of specimens : science, mourning, and Whitman's Civil War / Lindsay Tuggle.
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Notes
General note
The Iowa Whitman series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-246) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2017
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Call Numbers
H 2018/1508
Record Identifier
74VKVomoy67A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVomoy67A
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ISBN
9781609385392 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
160938539X (paperback ; acid-free paper)
DDC
811.3
MMS ID
991024165560002626
