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Edited Book

Authors
Ferber, Sarah and Wilde, Sally
Title
The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History
Imprint
Ashgate, Farnham (U.K.), 2011, 264 pp
ISBN/ISSN
9780754668343
Subject
Chronological Classification 1901- Applied Sciences Medical and Health Sciences
Description

Contents include: Dissection, Anatomy Acts, and the appropriation of bodies in 19th-century Australia: 'the government's brains' and the benevolent asylum, by Susan K. Martin (pp. 530-74); Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia), by Dolly MacKinnon (pp. 75-107); A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia, c.1880-1912, by Paul Turnbull (pp. 109-130).

Source
Cohn 2013

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