Samuel J. M. Alberti, Morbid Curiosities

Samuel Alberti’s Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a very recently published study which lifts the veil on the construction of medical museums in the nineteenth century. The book throws light on medical museums as part of nineteenth-century cultures of display and the development of a medical marketplace. Indeed, because they exhibited diseased body parts which were also circulated as commodities, medical museums offer good examples of the links between scie

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