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Human remains : medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris / Jonathan Strauss.
- Strauss, Jonathan.
- Date
- 2012
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About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Physical description
xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contributors
Contents
Medicine and authority -- The medical uses of nonsense -- A hostile environment -- Death comes alive -- Pleasure in revolt -- Monsters and artists -- Abstracting desire -- What abjection means.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
- English
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780823233793
- 0823233790
- 9780823233809
- 0823233804
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