Michael Sappol, A traffic of dead bodies: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America, Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 430, illus., US$35.00 (hardback 0-691-05925-X).

Ian Burney

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Michael Sappol, A traffic of dead bodies: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America, Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 430, illus., US$35.00 (hardback 0-691-05925-X).

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2012

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Information: Medical History , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , 01 January 2005 , pp. 122 - 124

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Michael Sappol, A traffic of dead bodies: anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth-century America, Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 430, illus., US$35.00 (hardback 0-691-05925-X).

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