Rina Knoeff - The Fate of Anatomical Collections

THE FATE OF ANATOMICAL COLLECTIONS

The History of Medicine in Context

Series Editors: Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Department of History

Open University

Titles in the series include

Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain

Bjrn Okholm Skaarup

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Maria Pia Donato

Suzanne Nol: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France

Paula J. Martin

Wounds in the Middle Ages

Edited by Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

Helen King

Edited by

RINA KNOEFF
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

and

ROBERT ZWIJNENBERG
Leiden University, The Netherlands

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Rina Knoeff, Robert Zwijnenberg and the Contributors 2015

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The fate of anatomical collections / edited by Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg.

p. ; cm. (The history of medicine in context)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-6815-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4094-6816-5 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4094-6817-2 (ebk ePUB)

I. Knoeff, Rina, editor. II. Zwijnenberg, Robert, 1954- , editor. III. Series: History of medicine in context.

[DNLM: 1. Anatomy, Artistic--history. 2. Museums--history. 3. History of Medicine. QS 27.1]

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2014033500

ISBN 9781409468158 (hbk)

ISBN 9781409468165 (ebk-PDF)

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Lisa Temple Cox

Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg

Ruth Richardson

Andrew Cunningham

Cindy Stelmackowich

Tim Huisman

Anita Guerrini

Hieke Huistra

Anna Maerker

Tatjana Buklijas

Alfons Zarzoso and Jos Pardo-Toms

Marieke Hendriksen

Fenneke Sysling

Tricia Close-Koenig

Samuel J.M.M. Alberti

Flavio Hner

Karin Tybjerg

Rina Knoeff

The Plates are located page 306.

Samuel J.M.M. Alberti is Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (including the Hunterian Museum) and Visiting Senior Research Fellow in History at Kings College London. He is interested in collections of anatomy, pathology and natural history; his books include Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2011).

Tatjana Buklijas is Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand; prior to that, she was a PhD student and Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She mostly writes about the histories of anatomy, human development and relationship between evolution and medicine.

Tricia Close-Koenig is coordinator and researcher of the Interreg funded project, Projections sur le Rhin suprieur, and adjunct lecturer at the Universit de Strasbourg. She works on the use of histopathology diagnosis records in cancer research and the representation of cancer in cancer films in the early twentieth century.

Andrew Cunningham taught and researched in the history of medicine at Cambridge University for over 35 years. His most important books in this area are The Anatomical Renaissance: the Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients (1997) and The Anatomist Anatomisd: an Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe (2010). He also wrote and presented the 30-part series on BBC Radio 4 The Making of Modern Medicine (2007), which was also issued as a CD set and online.

Anita Guerrini is Horning Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University. She has written on the history of animals, anatomy, medicine, food and the environment. Soon to appear is The Courtiers Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIVs Paris (Chicago, 2015). She blogs at http://anitaguerrini.com/anatomia-animalia/.

Flavio Hner, MA, studied history and cultural anthropology at the University of Basel. He is scientific assistant and PhD student at the Pharmacy Museum at the University of Basel. His research interest lies in the study of object-based scientific collections as instruments of knowledge.

Marieke Hendriksen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include the history and material culture of eighteenth-century Dutch medicine, in particular that of anatomy and chemistry. Her book on elegance and perfection in eighteenth-century Leiden anatomy appeared with Brill.

Tim Huisman trained as an art historian at Leiden University. He works as a curator at the Museum Boerhaave, the Dutch National Museum for the History of Science and Medicine. Huisman specializes in the museums collection of prints, drawings and paintings, in anatomy and in early modern medicine and life sciences.

Hieke Huistra is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. She is currently finishing her first book, Handling Anatomical Collections in the Nineteenth Century: Leiden and Beyond (Ashgate, forthcoming 2016). She also investigates twentieth-century ideas on fatness, in particular in the Netherlands, and teaches on academic integrity.

Rina Knoeff is Senior Researcher at the University of Groningen. She works on the history of the body in the Enlightenment, with special reference to the influential medicine of the Dutch Boerhaavians. She recently completed a project on the Leiden University anatomical collections. She is the author of Herman Boerhaave (16681738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician (Amsterdam, 2002).

Anna Maerker is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Kings College London. She works on the material culture of medicine since the late eighteenth century, and is the author of Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 17751815 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).

Jos Pardo-Toms is Scientific Researcher at the Department of History of Science in the