Medical museums : past, present, future / editors, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti and Elizabeth Hallam.

London : Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2013.

vi, 250 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bodies in museums / Elizabeth Hallam and Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- The organic museum: the Hunterian and other collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- Museums within a museum: Surgeons' Hall, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh / Chris Henry -- Disappearing museums? Medical collections at the University of Aberdeen / Elizabeth Hallam -- Medicine at the Science Museum, London / Robert Bud -- Recycling anatomical preparations: Leiden's anatomical collections / Marieke Hendriksen, Hieke Huistra and Rina Knoeff -- Anatomy and public enlightenment: the Florentine Museo 'La Specola' / Anna Maerker -- Making space for specimens: the museums of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm / Eva Åhrén --

The Museum of the History of Medicine in Zurich / Flurin Condrau -- Tracing life: the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité / Thomas Schnalke -- Biomedicine on display: Copenhagen's Medical Museion / Thomas Söderqvist and Bente Vinge Pederson -- The Dittrick: from doctors' museum to medical history centre / James M. Edmonson -- The disturbingly informative Mütter Museum / Robert D. Hicks -- An army museum or a national collection? Shifting interests and fortunes at the National Museum of Health and Medicine / Michael Rhode -- Collecting medical technology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History / Judy M. Chelnik -- Morbid anatomy / Joanna Ebenstein -- Afterword: Wellcome Collection and the post-medical museum? / Ken Arnold and Simon Chaplin.