Elizabeth Stephens (Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland (Australia))
From the late eighteenth century to the present day, public exhibitions featuring displays of human anatomy have proven popular with a wide range of audiences, successfully marketed as educational facilities for medical professionals as well as improving entertainments for the general public. Partly a product of the public sanitation and health reform movements that began in the eighteenth century, partly a form of popular spectacle, early public anatomical exhibitions drew on two apparently distinct cultural developments: firstly, the professionalisation of medicine from the mid 1700s and...
From the late eighteenth century to the present day, public exhibitions featuring displays of human anatomy have proven popular with a wide range of a...
