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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. The Body on Display: Staging the Other, Shaping the Self -- Science and Spectacle: "Exotic" Bodies on Display -- Fictional Encounters? Peter Altenberg's Ashantee (1897) -- Somatic Utopias: Viennese Hygiene Exhibitions -- Literary Life Reform: Peter Altenberg's Pròdromos (1906) -- Nature and Culture on Stage -- 2. The Body in Pieces: Viennese Literature's Anatomies -- Becoming the Blade: Vivisection as the Primal Scene -- In the Dissecting Room: Arthur Schnitzler and Marie Pappenheim -- Viennese Symptoms, Human Fragments: Joseph Roth's Journalism -- The Politics and Poetics of Viennese Corpses: Carry Hauser and Joseph Roth -- Corpse as Capital: Ödön von Horváth's Faith, Hope, and Charity (1932) -- 3. The Patient's Body: Working-Class Women in the Clinic -- Finding a Voice: The Poetics of Pregnancy (Marie Pappenheim and Ilka Maria Ungar) -- Egon Schiele in the Clinic -- In the Women's Clinic: Architecture, Gaze, Film -- Speaking for Suffering Mothers: Else Feldmann and Carry Hauser -- The Politics and Public Visibility of Workers' Bodies -- 4. The Body in Motion: Staging Silent Expression -- Body Language and Crisis of Language -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Power of Pantomime -- Self and Other: Exploring Identity through Free Dance -- Making Modern Dance Viennese -- Celluloid Gestures and the Cinematic Body -- The Worker's Body: Modern Dance, Machine Culture, and Social Democracy -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. The Body on Display: Staging the Other, Shaping the Self -- 2. The Body in Pieces: Viennese Literature's Anatomies -- 3. The Patient's Body: Working- Class Women in the Clinic -- 4. The Body in Motion: Staging Silent Expression -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

AbstractRecent scholarship on the history of science and medicine has begun to consider the diversity of sites, markets, and audiences for scientific knowledge. This article investigates a single publicly accessible location: Vienna's Prater park. At a time when the Second Vienna Medical School led the world in anatomy and pathology, two case studies demonstrate how knowledge about human anatomy entered thefin-de-siècleViennese public sphere in a noninstitutional setting. Josef Hyrtl, an anatomist, and Hermann Präuscher, a showman, employed targeted marketing strategies for their anatomical preparations to facilitate the circulation of anatomical knowledge among the socially diverse audiences that congregated on the fairground. Examining how anatomy was visualized and discursively constructed, alongside questions of site, accessibility, and audience response, sheds light on a pivotal historical moment when the meaning of the human body was undergoing significant transformation in Austrian society.