Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of medical terms -- Introduction: Bones of contention -- The history of medicine and medical museums in Australia -- 1 Dissecting the culture of anatomy -- Collecting the human body -- The Melbourne Medical School -- The anatomists -- Cadaver poems -- 2 From patient to specimen: Collectors and networks -- Nineteenth-century collecting activity -- Harry Brookes Allen and the collecting network -- Transforming patient into specimen -- 'The battle of the brains': Public views of a clandestine network -- Why did they collect? -- Amateur versus paid collecting -- 3 The anatomy of a museum -- From grotesque body parts to pedagogical tools -- The museum as an encyclopaedia of the body -- Specimens as pedagogical tools -- Private and public anatomy -- 4 Unrealized lives: A collection of foetal specimens -- Medical authority and the foetal specimen -- Specimen collecting and medical discourse -- Foetuses preserved in isolation -- Foetuses preserved in situ -- 5 War pathology specimens -- War specimens and the development of military medicine -- Displaying the collection -- 6 Moving parts: Repatriation and bioethics -- The persistent culture of anatomy -- Moving parts within the context of decolonization -- The Berry Collection -- Moving parts within a changing bioethical climate -- Conclusion: Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Abstract
Historians of medicine have observed that the student experience of medical school is difficult to capture. While students sometimes left behind notebooks containing lecture notes and diagrams, there is often little evidence that illuminates their lived experiences and responses to their education. This article analyses written submissions to the publication of the Melbourne Medical Students' Society, Speculum, between 1884 and 1912, to argue that students at the Melbourne Medical School in this era actively participated in discussions about the curriculum on offer, were highly aware of the moral and ethical consequences of their actions in the dissecting room and took great interest in the advancements and debates of the medical profession. It reclaims the student experience of medical school, which has often been hidden in favour of history written from the perspective of those in positions of power, to offer fresh insights into the history of medical education.