Nature dissected, or dissection naturalized? The case of John Hunter's museum
At his death in 1793 the museum of the surgeon and anatomist John Hunter contained over thirteen thousand specimens and objects. Although many were the familiar stuff of natural history, the core of the collection consisted of over seven thousand human or animal body parts or ‘anatomical preparation...
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Language: | English |
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University of Leicester
2008-07-01
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Series: | Museum & Society |
Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/119 |