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‘Unwholesome’ and ‘pornographic’: A reassessment of the place of Rackstrow's Museum in the story of eighteenth-century anatomical collection and exhibition
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This article is published in Journal of The History of Collections.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Exhibition.read more
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The study of anatomy in England from 1700 to the early 20th century
Piers D. Mitchell,Ceridwen Boston,Andrew T. Chamberlain,Simon Chaplin,Vin Chauhan,Jonathan Evans,Louise Fowler,Natasha Powers,Don Walker,Helen Webb,Annsofie Witkin +10 more
TL;DR: The study of anatomy in England during the 18th and 19th century has become infamous for bodysnatching from graveyards to provide a sufficient supply of cadavers, but recent discoveries have improved understanding of how and why anatomy was studied during the enlightenment.
Modeling Authority at the Canadian Fisheries Museum, 1884-1918
TL;DR: The history of the Canadian Fisheries Museum is explored in this paper, where the museum navigated its material and conceptual challenges as it sought to model Canada's aquatic nature, including the museum's spatial constraints, the authenticity of fish models, competing local and national roles, the professionalization of government science, and the gendered shift from production to consumption in fisheries administration.
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Bibliography of urban history 2012
TL;DR: The present bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974-91 and Urban History from 1992 as discussed by the authors, and the arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years.
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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
TL;DR: The manuscript received an 'excellent' endorsement by external refereeing and suggested amendments were very minor as discussed by the authors, and the main anonymous referee was very praiseworthy of the book and commented that it will make a'major contribution' extending the work of Vic Gattrell's The Hanging Tree.
Dissertation
Sex, Spirits, and Sensibility: Human Generation in British Medicine, Anatomy, and Literature, 1660-1780
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the physiological idea of animal spirits in relation to nerves, sex, and reproduction in the culture of sensibility and highlight the roles of gender, markets, literary modes, scientific practices, visual demonstrations, medical vocations, and broader social and political discourses in conceptions of the body and mind in relation with sex and reproduction.