Images of the corpse : from the Renaissance to cyberspace / edited by Elizabeth Klaver.

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004], ©2004.

xx, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"A Ray and Pat Browne book."

Autopsy: the final diagnosis / Eugene Arnold -- Physiology and fabrication: the art of making visible / Maria Angel -- Blood and circuses / Kate Cregan -- Representation of the dead body in literature and medical writings during the restoration in France (1799-1848) / Robert S. April -- The carnivalesque Defunto: death and the dead in modern Brazilian literature / Robert H. Moser -- Watching over the wounded eyes of Georges Bataille and Andres Serrano / Kylie Rachel Message -- Optative death: Gerard Richter in the wake of the vanguard / Andrew McNamara -- You can't keep a dead woman down: the female corpse and textual disruption in contemporary Hollywood / Deborah Jermyn -- Database/body: digital anatomy and the precession of medical simulation / Eugene Thacker -- The body in the next room: death as differend / Michael Mendelson -- Dead or alive / Jen Webb and Lorraine Webb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.