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| Author | : Jan Bondeson |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 144567629X |
A historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.
| Author | : Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2024-08-27 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0197691137 |
In Freak Inheritance, both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations of eugenicist thought in historical and contemporary culture. It is the follow-up to the field-defining Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996).
| Author | : Michael M. Chemers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0197691129 |
The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the wildly popular performances that told compelling stories about categories of people that scientific and social-scientific discourses increasingly described - and sometimes still describe - as biologically inferior. Although much work has emerged recently about the history of eugenics, this collection highlights the specific ways that modes of exaggerated commercial popular performances create a public conversation that mirrors pathological narratives of human difference that are now firmly established as the categories of normal and abnormal, healthy and diseased, beneficial and harmful. This connection between narratives of freakery and normalcy gesture towards a fuller understanding of how eugenic thinking has re-emerged strongly as a force in medical science and cultural thinking aimed at producing the supposed "best" and "most useful" kinds of people.
| Author | : Simon Young |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2022-07-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1496839447 |
In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
| Author | : Agustí Nieto-Galan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2023-11-23 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1009379593 |
From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical views, scientific schools, political ideologies, cultural values, and professional interests. The hunger artists generated heated debates on objectivity and medical pluralism, and fierce struggles over authority, recognition, and prestige. Set on the fringes of the freak show culture of the nineteenth century and the scientific study of physiology laboratories, Nieto-Galan explores the story of the public exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies, and their enormous impact on the public sphere of their time.
| Author | : Lyell D. Jr. Henry |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2024-10-30 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1609389808 |
For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United States was walking. Professional pedestrians often covered 500 miles or more for up to six grueling days and nights in pursuit of large money prizes. Walking was also a favorite amateur sport; newspapers often noted a “pedestrian mania” or “walking fever” that only began to give way in the mid-1880s to fast-rising crazes for baseball, bicycling, and roller skating. As competitive walking faded, a new kind of spectacle walking, which had also begun in the late 1860s, came to full flower. Between 1890 and 1930, hundreds of men, women, even children and entire families were on the nation’s roads and railroad tracks trekking between widely separated points, sometimes moving in unusual ways such as on roller skates or by walking barefooted, backward, on stilts, or while rolling a hoop. To finance their attention-seeking journeys, many sold souvenir postcards. The public usually found these performers entertaining, but public officials and newspaper editors often denounced them as nuisances or frauds. Tapping vintage postcards and old newspaper articles, this is the first book to bring back to view this once-familiar feature of American life.
| Author | : Jan Bondeson |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2004-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780801489587 |
A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience. The dicephalous Tocci brothers and Lazarus Colloredo (from whose belly grew his malformed conjoined twin), the Swedish giant, and the king of Poland's dwarf--Bondeson considers these individuals not as "freaks" but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities.He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in his diagnoses. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, oil paintings, and photographs, The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit. Contents: The Two Inseparable Brothers, and a PrefaceThe Hairy Maid at the HarpsichordThe Stone-childThe Woman Who Laid an EggThe Strangest Miracle in the WorldSome Words about Hog-faced GentlewomenHorned HumansThe Biddenden MaidsThe Tocci Brothers, and Other DicephaliThe King of Poland's CourtDwarf Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish GiantDaniel Lambert, the Human ColossusCat-eating Englishmen and French Frog-swallowers
| Author | : George Milbry Gould |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1008 |
| Release | : 1901 |
| Genre | : Abnormalities, Human |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : George M. Gould |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 984 |
| Release | : 2019-11-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
This is a medical reference book and contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of various medical anomalies and unusual conditions. The book covers topics such as genetic anomalies, prenatal anomalies, obstetric anomalies, surgical anomalies, and anomalous types and instances of diseases. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of medical knowledge and serves as a valuable resource for medical professionals and researchers interested in rare and unusual medical conditions.
| Author | : New York Academy of Medicine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 854 |
| Release | : 1948 |
| Genre | : Medicine |
| ISBN | : |
