Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / Elizabeth Klaver.
Material type: TextSeries: SUNY series in postmodern culturePublication details: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1423744101
- 9781423744108
- 0791464253
- 9780791464250
- 0791464261
- 9780791464267
- 9780791483428
- 0791483428
- 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
- 616.07/59 22
- RA1063.4 .K53 2005eb
- 2005 G-864
- QZ 35
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
"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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