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A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. 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

Title : A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Author : Michael Sappol
Language : en
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