Body Collected in Australia, The: A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge
Eugenia Pacitti, "Body Collected in Australia, The: A History of Human Specimens and the Circulation of Biomedical Knowledge"
English | ISBN: 1350373729 | 2024 | 228 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1350373729 | 2024 | 228 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony’s physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation’s medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day.
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