Human remains : medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris / Jonathan Strauss.

  • Strauss, Jonathan.
Date:
2012
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Physical description

xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Medicine and authority -- The medical uses of nonsense -- A hostile environment -- Death comes alive -- Pleasure in revolt -- Monsters and artists -- Abstracting desire -- What abjection means.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JIB.36.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9780823233793
  • 0823233790
  • 9780823233809
  • 0823233804