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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 Bjørn okholm skaarup Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome maria Pia Donato Suzanne Noël: 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 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 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg have asserted their right under the copyright, Designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street Union Road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, VT 05401-3818 surrey, GU9 7PT Usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: 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] Qm21 611--dc23 2014033500 isBn 9781409468158 (hbk) isBn 9781409468165 (ebk – PDF) isBn 9781409468172 (ebk – ePUB) V Printed in the United Kingdom by henry ling limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1hD 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 This page has been left blank intentionally 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
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