In the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums, Morbid Curiosities traces the afterlives of diseased body parts. It asks how they came to be in museums, what happened to them there, and who used them. This book is concerned with the macabre work of pathologists as they dismem[...]
In the quiet halls of the natural history museum, there are somecreatures still alive with stories, whose personalities refuse to be relegated tothe dusty corners of an exhibit. The fame of these beasts during their lifetimes hasgiven them an iconic status in death. More than just museum specimens, [...]