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A Traffic of Dead Bodies

A Traffic of Dead Bodies
Author: Michael Sappol
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0691118752

A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. Download A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions.The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. A Traffic of Dead Bodies medical books pdf for free. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine



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