Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relati
Nine studies examine such preoccupations as monstrous births, body snatching, public punishment, and flagellation during the early modern times. Mostly European academics apply perspectives from philo
The authors in this volume confront the subject of how people imagine the insides of their own bodies. With all the recent technological advances, people can now view their own colons, hearts, kidneys