Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture /
"In this interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the "real" thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of ped...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1423744101 9781423744108 0791464253 9780791464250 0791464261 9780791464267 9780791483428 0791483428 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "In this interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the "real" thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of pedagogical, legal, scientific, and social functions, and the autopsied cadaver, Klaver shows, has lately become one of the most spectacular bodies offered up to the public on film, television, and the Internet. Setting her discussion within the history of the modern autopsy, and including the narrative of her own attendance at a medical autopsy, Klaver makes the autopsy readable in a number of diverse venues, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture and Vesalius's Fabrica to The Silence of the Lambs, The X-Files, and CSI. Moving from the actual autopsy itself to its broader symbolic ramifications, Klaver addresses questions as disparate as the social constructedness of the body, the perception and treatment of death under late capitalism, and the ubiquity of paranoia in contemporary culture."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | SUNY series in postmodern culture.
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