Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present

by Elizabeth Stephens

Book Overview

From the late eighteenth century to the present day, public exhibitions featuring displays of human anatomy have proven popular with a wide range of audiences, successfully marketed as educational facilities for medical professionals as well as improving entertainments for the general public. Partly a product of the public sanitation and health reform movements that began in the eighteenth century, partly a form of popular spectacle, early public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846316448
• ISBN13: 9781846316449
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"