Dr Elizabeth Stephens is ARC Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Selected previous publications: Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century "Museums of Anatomy" and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic3.From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Ecorche Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens' Body WorldsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Stephens’ Anatomy as Spectacle offers a fresh and engaging account of the budding, and indeed the wilting, of a historical nexus between exhibitory cultures and practices, medicine as a discipline that disciplines, and of course the maintenance, meaning and value of particular bodies in the everyday. It is well worth a read for scholars interested or doing research in fields such as disability studies, sensory studies, gender studies and indeed that spacious, noisy interval at which these are often drawn together: cultural studies.

Dr Elizabeth Stephens is ARC Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Selected previous publications: Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century "Museums of Anatomy" and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic3.From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Ecorche Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens' Body WorldsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Stephens’ Anatomy as Spectacle offers a fresh and engaging account of the budding, and indeed the wilting, of a historical nexus between exhibitory cultures and practices, medicine as a discipline that disciplines, and of course the maintenance, meaning and value of particular bodies in the everyday. It is well worth a read for scholars interested or doing research in fields such as disability studies, sensory studies, gender studies and indeed that spacious, noisy interval at which these are often drawn together: cultural studies.

Dr Elizabeth Stephens is ARC Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Selected previous publications: Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Docile Subject of Anatomy: Gynomorphic Waxworks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public Exhibitions2. Lost Manhood: Turn-of-the-Century "Museums of Anatomy" and the Spermatorrhoea Epidemic3.From the Freak to the Disabled Person: Anatomical Difference as Public Spectacle and Private Condition4. Inventing the Bodily Interior: Ecorche Figures in Early Modern Anatomy and von Hagens' Body WorldsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Stephens’ Anatomy as Spectacle offers a fresh and engaging account of the budding, and indeed the wilting, of a historical nexus between exhibitory cultures and practices, medicine as a discipline that disciplines, and of course the maintenance, meaning and value of particular bodies in the everyday. It is well worth a read for scholars interested or doing research in fields such as disability studies, sensory studies, gender studies and indeed that spacious, noisy interval at which these are often drawn together: cultural studies.