TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klaver,Elizabeth
TI  - Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture
T2  - SUNY series in postmodern culture
SN  - 1423744101
AV  - RA1063.4 .K53 2005eb
U1  - 616.07/59 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Albany, NY
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Autopsy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - Attitude to Death
KW  - Communications Media
KW  - Medicine in the Arts
KW  - Social Environment
KW  - Autopsie
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mort
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Médias
KW  - Écologie sociale
KW  - mass media
KW  - aat
KW  - human ecology
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Laboratory Medicine
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Assessment & Diagnosis
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; Autopsy : a context --; 2; Performance, autopsy, and the performative --; 3; Autopsy and the subject, or, what the dead saw --; 4; Autopsy and the social : the case of John F. Kennedy
N2  - "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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