The Fate of Anatomical Collections

336 Pages·2015·4.04 MB·English

by  Rina Knoeff

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
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Paula J. martin
Wounds in the Middle Ages
edited by anne Kirkham and cordelia Warr
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helen King
The Fate of anatomical collections
edited by
Rina KnoeFF
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
and
RoBeRT ZWiJnenBeRG
Leiden University, The Netherlands
© Rina Knoeff, Robert Zwijnenberg and the contributors 2015
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and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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The fate of anatomical collections / edited by Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg.
p. ; cm. — (The history of medicine in context)
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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.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Plates xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
A Museum of My Own: Notes on the Cover Image xix
Lisa Temple Cox
Acknowledgements xxi
PART I InTRoduCTIon
1 Setting the Stage 3
Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg
2 organ Music 11
Ruth Richardson
PART II FATed ColleCTIonS
3 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? or, What Richard owen did to
John Hunter’s Collection 23
Andrew Cunningham
4 Gender, Fate and McGill university’s Medical Collections:
The Case of Curator Maude Abbott 53
Cindy Stelmackowich
5 Resilient Collections: The long life of leiden’s earliest
Anatomical Collections 73
Tim Huisman
6 Inside the Charnel House: The display of Skeletons in
europe, 1500–1800 93
Anita Guerrini
vi The Fate of Anatomical Collections
PART III PRePARATIonS, ModelS And uSeRS
7 Adieu Albinus: How the Preparations in the nineteenth-
Century leiden Anatomical Collections lost their Past 113
Hieke Huistra
8 user-developers, Model Students and Ambassador users: The
Role of the Public in the Global distribution of nineteenth-
Century Anatomical Models 129
Anna Maerker
9 Mapping Anatomical Collections in nineteenth-Century
Vienna 143
Tatjana Buklijas
10 Fall and Rise of the Roca Museum: owners, Meanings and
Audiences of an Anatomical Collection from Barcelona to
Antwerp, 1922–2012 161
Alfons Zarzoso and José Pardo-Tomás
PART IV PRoVenAnCe And FATe
11 The Fate of the Beaded Babies: Forgotten early
Colonial Anatomy 179
Marieke Hendriksen
12 ‘not everything that Says Java is from Java’: Provenance and the
Fate of Physical Anthropology Collections 195
Fenneke Sysling
13 Cataloguing Collections: The Importance of Paper Records of
Strasbourg’s Medical School Pathological Anatomy Collection 211
Tricia Close-Koenig
PART V MuSeuM And ColleCTIon PRACTICeS TodAy
14 Anatomical Craft: A History of Medical Museum Practice 231
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Contents vii
15 Restoration Reconsidered: The Case of Skull number 1-1-2/27
at the Anatomy Museum of the university of Basel 247
Flavio Häner
16 From Bottled Babies to Biobanks: Medical Collections in the
Twenty-First Century 263
Karin Tybjerg
17 Ball Pool Anatomy: on the Public Veneration of
Anatomical Relics 279
Rina Knoeff
Appendix: The Leiden Declaration 293
Index 297
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List of Figures
3.1 Georges Cuvier’s classification of animals, 1817 36
3.2 Owen, the Hunterian Professor, as a Cuvierian. © The Trustees
of the Natural History Museum, London 40
4.1 William Osler, ‘the world’s most famous physician in a clinic
at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal’, 1905. Reproduced
by permission of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine,
McGill University, Montreal CUS_046–014_P 54
4.2 Miss Maude E. Abbott, Montreal. Photography: William
Notman & Son, 1887. Courtesy of McCord Museum,
Montreal II-85442 58
4.3 Abbott’s exhibit at the Centenary Meeting of the British
Medical Association in London, England, 1936. Reproduced
by permission of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine,
McGill University, Montreal PIII 68
5.1 Willem Swanenburg after Johannes Woudanus, the Leiden
Anatomy Theatre, 1610. Courtesy of Museum Boerhaave, Leiden 75
5.2 A canopus vessel containing the embalmed innards of a mummy,
sent to Heurnius by David le Leu de Wilhem, 1620s. Courtesy of
the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden 78
5.3 English translation of the catalogue of the anatomy theatre’s
collection, by Gerard Blanken, 1704. Courtesy of Museum
Boerhaave, Leiden 86
6.1 Skeleton of Richard Helain, Nuremberg, 1493. Courtesy of
Wellcome Library, London 96
6.2 An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden
Anatomical Theatre. Andries Stock, c. 1615. Courtesy of
Wellcome Library, London 99
6.3 The skeletal structure of a cat and dog. William Cheselden,
Osteographia, 1733. Courtesy of Wellcome Library, London 108