The fate of anatomical collections / edited by Rina Knoeff, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Robert Zwijnenberg, leiden University, The Netherlands.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]

305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The fate of anatomical collections / Rina Knoeff & Robert Zwijnenberg -- Organ music / Ruth Richardson -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? or, what Richard Owen did to John Hunter's collection / Andrew Cunningham -- Gender, fate and McGill University's medical collections : the case of curator Maude Abbott / Cindy Stelmackowich -- Resilient collections : the long life of Leiden's earliest collections / Tim Huisman -- Inside the charnel house : the display of skeletons in Europe, 1500-1800 / Anita Guerrini -- Adieu Albinus : how the preparations in the nineteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections lost their past / Hieke Huistra -- User-developers, model students and ambassador users : the role of the public in the global distribution of nineteenth-century anatomical models / Anna Märker -- Mapping anatomical collections in nineteenth-century Vienna / Tatjana Buklijas -- Fall and rise of the Roca Museum : owners, meanings and audiences of an anatomical collection from Barcelona to Antwerp, 1922-2012 -- Alfons zarzoso & José Pardo Tomás -- The fate of the beaded babies : forgotten early colonial anatomy / Marieke Hendriksen -- 'Not everything that says Java is from Java' : provenance and the fate of physical anthropological collections / Fenneke Sysling -- Cataloguing collections : the importance of paper records of Strasbourg's medical school pathological anatomy collection / Tricia Close-Koenig -- Anatomical craft : a history of medical museum practice / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- Restoration reconsidered : the case of skull number 1-1-2/27 at the anatomy museum of the University of Basel / Flavio Häner -- From bottled babies to biobanks : medical collections in the 21st century / Karin Tybjerg -- Ballpool anatomy : on the public veneration of anatomical relics / Rina Knoeff -- Leiden declaration on human Anatomy / anatomical collections.

Includes bibliographical references and index.