Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture

Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary CultureExplores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X Files and CSI. In this compelling 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

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Fills a major gap in the historiography of Cromwellian England

The archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolours and drawings (well over 400) by Piet de Jong

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in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period

and concludes that Mathews's foundation for social gospel theology prefigures political and liberation theologies in important respects

and "Ideas y creencias" are equally decisive not only for the understanding and radical completion of Ortega's work

With the rise of nationalism in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century

cluster and analyse standards based on common features

the radicalization of nurses from the 1960s