Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture /
Klaver, Elizabeth.
Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / Elizabeth Klaver. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series in postmodern culture . - SUNY series in postmodern culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Autopsy : a context -- Performance, autopsy, and the performative -- Autopsy and the subject, or, what the dead saw -- Autopsy and the social : the case of John F. Kennedy. Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4.
"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.
1423744101 (electronic bk.) 9781423744108 (electronic bk.) 0791464253 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9780791464250 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0791464261 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780791464267 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780791483428 0791483428
00025125
2004009642
Autopsy--Social aspects.
Autopsy--History.
Autopsy.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Mass media.
Social ecology.
Autopsy
Attitude to Death
Communications Media
Medicine in the Arts
Social Environment
Autopsie--Aspect social.
Autopsie--Histoire.
Autopsie.
Mort--Aspect psychologique.
Médias.
Écologie sociale.
mass media.
human ecology.
MEDICAL--Laboratory Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diagnosis.
MEDICAL--Nursing--Assessment & Diagnosis.
Autopsy.
Autopsy--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
RA1063.4 / .K53 2005eb
616.07/59
2005 G-864 QZ 35 / K63s 2005
Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / Elizabeth Klaver. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series in postmodern culture . - SUNY series in postmodern culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Autopsy : a context -- Performance, autopsy, and the performative -- Autopsy and the subject, or, what the dead saw -- Autopsy and the social : the case of John F. Kennedy. Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4.
"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.
1423744101 (electronic bk.) 9781423744108 (electronic bk.) 0791464253 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9780791464250 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0791464261 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780791464267 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780791483428 0791483428
00025125
2004009642
Autopsy--Social aspects.
Autopsy--History.
Autopsy.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Mass media.
Social ecology.
Autopsy
Attitude to Death
Communications Media
Medicine in the Arts
Social Environment
Autopsie--Aspect social.
Autopsie--Histoire.
Autopsie.
Mort--Aspect psychologique.
Médias.
Écologie sociale.
mass media.
human ecology.
MEDICAL--Laboratory Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diagnosis.
MEDICAL--Nursing--Assessment & Diagnosis.
Autopsy.
Autopsy--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
RA1063.4 / .K53 2005eb
616.07/59
2005 G-864 QZ 35 / K63s 2005