A Traffic of Dead Bodies (Record no. 63169)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691118758
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj.
Bill Number : 121707
Bill Date : 06/05/2025
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/103A, H.No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
Bill Number : ZBD0399
Bill Date : 24/01/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 364.1 SAP
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sappol, Michael.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A Traffic of Dead Bodies
Remainder of title : Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth–Century America.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Michael Sappol.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New Jersey
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 430p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2790
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine to invest itself with the authority of European science. Anatomists crossed the boundary between life and death, cut into the body, reduced it to its parts, framed it with moral commentary, and represented it theatrically, visually, and textually. Only initiates of the dissecting room could claim the privileged healing status that came with direct knowledge of the body. But anatomy depended on confiscation of the dead--mainly the plundered bodies of African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and the poor. As black markets in cadavers flourished, so did a cultural obsession with anatomy, an obsession that gave rise to clashes over the legal, social, and moral status of the dead. Ministers praised or denounced anatomy from the pulpit; rioters sacked medical schools; and legislatures passed or repealed laws permitting medical schools to take the bodies of the destitute. Dissection narratives and representations of the anatomical body circulated in new places: schools, dime museums, popular lectures, minstrel shows, and sensationalist novels. Michael Sappol resurrects this world of graverobbers and anatomical healers, discerning new ligatures among race and gender relations, funerary practices, the formation of the middle-class, and medical professionalization. In the process, he offers an engrossing and surprisingly rich cultural history of nineteenth-century America.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Identity
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element 19 Century America
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Michael Sappol.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 23/05/2025 International Book Distributors 2790.00   364.1 SAP 30893 23/05/2025 23/05/2025 Books    
    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 02/02/2026 Zafaa Books & Distributors 2625.00 1 364.1 SAP 31317 21/05/2026 02/02/2026 Books 1 24/03/2026
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