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2012

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Elizabeth Klaver

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01 février 2012

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9780791483428

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

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 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 Lesson 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.
List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

5. Autopsy and the Popular

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791483428

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture

Elizabeth Klaver

Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture

Elizabeth Klaver

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Klaver, Elizabeth. Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / Elizabeth Klaver. p. cm. — (SUNY series in postmodern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6425-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-6426-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Autopsy—Social aspects. 2. Autopsy—History. I. Title. II. Series. RA1063.4.K53 2005 616.07'59—dc22 2004009642

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Autopsy: A Context

Contents

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

5. Autopsy and the Popular

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Illustrations

FIGURE1.1. Andreas Vesalius, Title Page toDe Humani Corporis Fabrica. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

FIGURE3.1. Samuel Beckett,Play.An Institute for the Exploration of Virtual Realities production, directed and designed by Lance Gharavi. Produced at the University of Kansas, 1996. Permission and photo courtesy of Mark Reaney.

FIGURE3.2. Hans Holbein the Younger,The Ambassadors. Courtesy of the National Gallery, London.

FIGURE4.1. President John F. Kennedy autopsy diagram. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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