1st Edition
Forces of Form The Vrolik Museum
144 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century. No visit to the city was complete without taking the opportunity to gaze in admiration at its five thousand specimens, ranging from curious stillbirths to human skeletons, healthy or diseased, and all kinds of exotic and not-so-exotic animals.Recent scientific publications... Read more
Foreword, Anatomy ornamented, The poet and the tsar, The pathologisation of dissection, Magic stones from the belly of an antelope, A cabinet departs, Criminal heads, The foetus man, A nerve-racking job for Lodewijk Bolk, Death keeps science alive, Mangled by fashion, List of captions, Bibliography, About the contributors.
Biography
Laurens de Rooy is a medical history researcher and curator of the Vrolik Museum, housed at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. Hans van den Bogaard is a freelance photographer.
