Name: The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War (en Inglés)
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Author: Tuggle, Lindsay
ISBN: 9781609385392

portada The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War (en Inglés)

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Lindsay Tuggle

Editorial

University of Iowa Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

276

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x15.2x1.8 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781609385392

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
C. 1800-c. 1861 (época de la exploración y la expansión en estados unidos)
1861-1877 (período de la guerra civil estadounidense y época de la reconstrucción)
Estudios literarios: poesía y poetas
Historia de américa

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War (en Inglés)

Lindsay Tuggle (Autor) · University of Iowa Press · Tapa Blanda

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The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver became both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence. Walt Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living and the dead. In the space of a few decades, dissection evolved from a posthumous punishment inflicted on criminals to an element of preservationist technology worthy of the presidential corpse of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman transitioned from a fervent opponent of medical bodysnatching to a literary celebrity who left behind instructions for his own autopsy, including the removal of his brain for scientific study. Grounded in archival discoveries, Afterlives traces the origins of nineteenth-century America's preservation compulsion, illuminating the influences of botanical, medical, spiritualist, and sentimental discourses on Whitman's work. Tuggle unveils previously unrecognized connections between Whitman and the leading "medical men" of his era, such as the surgeon John H. Brinton, founding curator of the Army Medical Museum, and Silas Weir Mitchell, the neurologist who discovered phantom limb syndrome. Remains from several amputee soldiers whom Whitman nursed in the Washington hospitals became specimens in the Army Medical Museum. Tuggle is the first scholar to analyze Whitman's role in medically memorializing the human cadaver and its abandoned parts.