A traffic of dead bodies: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America

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Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Mysteries of the Dead Body: Death, Embodiment, and Social Identity 13 2. A Genuine Zeal: The Anatomical Era in American Medicine 44 3. Is the Charm: Dissection and Medical Identity in Nineteenth-Century America 74 4. A Traffic of Dead Bodies: The Contested Bioethics of Anatomy in Antebellum America 98 5. Indebted to the Dissecting Knife: Alternative Medicine and Anatomical Consensus in Antebellum America 136 6. House I Live In: Popular Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Antebellum America 168 7. Foul Altar of a Dissecting Table: Anatomy, Sex, and Sensationalist Fiction at Mid-Century 212 8. The Education of Sammy Tubbs: Anatomical Dissection, Minstrelsy, and the Technology of Self-Making in Postbellum America 238 9. Out of Gear: Popular Anatomy at the Margins in Late Nineteenth-Century America 274 Conclusion 313 Notes 329 Bibliography 385 Index 423

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