Elegant Anatomy
The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections
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Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004262775
- ISBN-109004262776
- Library of Congress Control Number2014033549
- Better World Books9789004262775
- Open LibraryOL29723398M
Classifications
- LCCQM51.N42 L34 2014
- LCCQM51.N42 L34 2015
Description
"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical collections may seem strange, and undeniably have a morbid aesthetic, yet are neither curiosities nor art. As this book deals with issues related to the keeping and displaying of historical human remains, it is highly relevant for material culture and museum studies, cultural history, the history of scientific collections and the history of medicine alike. Unlike existing literature on historical anatomical collections, this book takes the objects in the collections as its starting point, instead of the people that created them"--From publisher's website.
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