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Princeton University Press A Traffic of Dead Bodies - 19th Century American Anatomy History

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A Traffic of Dead Bodies examines how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to establish professional authority and identity whilst navigating bodysnatching, dissection-room practices, and anatomical discourse. This Princeton University Press volume reveals the competing voices that shaped medical legitimacy: middle-class reformers, working people, cultural radicals, unorthodox healers, and entrepreneurs who resisted or exploited anatomical science to define their own social positions and visions during the rise of the American medical profession. The book situates anatomy within broader social and cultural contexts, showing how this vital science became a battleground for identity formation, professional power, and competing claims to knowledge about the human body.

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Explores bodysnatching and dissection practices that defined nineteenth-century American medical education and professional development.

Analyses how physicians leveraged anatomical authority to establish legitimacy and control over both living patients and deceased bodies.

Documents resistance and exploitation of anatomy by working people, middle-class reformers, and cultural radicals seeking alternative social identities.

Situates anatomy within the broader context of nineteenth-century American social and cultural history.

Published by Princeton University Press, offering scholarly examination of medical professionalization and embodied social identity in America.

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Release Date
25 April 2004
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13 February 2007

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