A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

by Michael Sappol

Book Overview

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 authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118752
• ISBN13: 9780691118758
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"