<div dir="ltr"><div>Here's a historical/cultural sidelight to the nhcoll discussions about specimens in preservation fluids. I spotted this on a listing of recent dissertations in history of medicine/science: <a href="http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/histmed/dissertations" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:18.399999618530273px">http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/histmed/dissertations</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>Karen </div><div><div>Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS</div><div>Historian of science and medicine</div><div>Independent exhibit curator</div><div>Museum and editorial consultant</div><div><a href="mailto:karenmreeds@gmail.com">karenmreeds@gmail.com</a><br>
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</div><div><span style="line-height:1.2;color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Aesthetics of fluid-preserved animal and human bodies: An example of research-based art</span><br></div>
<div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(76,76,76);font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px">2013</span><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px"> </span><span class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px">2013</span><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px"> </span><br>
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Aesthetics of fluid-preserved animal and human bodies: an example of research-based art is based on an interdisciplinary art investigation and intervention on publicly displayed visual artifacts containing animal and human materials. It consists of this dissertation text and two of my art projects, Xenotransplantation P56 (2012) and A Dying Art (2013), which use examples from pre-modern fluid-preserved specimens. Xenotransplantation P56 is an observation on a series of historical fluid-preserved specimens at the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England prepared by English surgeon John Hunter in the late 1700s. Through critical analysis of this case, I propose an argument that anatomical specimens, which are preservations of actual animal and human body parts, may become subject to social controversy, misinterpretation and mystification, due to their uniquely strong cultural symbolism. A Dying Art is a hands-on intervention on the historical fluid-preserved specimen collection at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in which I investigate issues related to the dissociation of their identity with contemporary clinical medicine. A Dying Art delivers the idea that the role of Western medical museum as an institution has been continuously redefined according to changing social and cultural norms towards public display of human body parts.</p>
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Subject</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell">Fine arts;<br>Science history;<br>Museum studies<br></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Classification</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell">0357: Fine arts<br>
0585: Science history<br>0730: Museum studies</div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left"><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">
Identifier / keyword</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">Social sciences, </span><span class="">Communication and the arts, </span><span class="">Aesthetics, </span><span class="">Anatomical specimen,</span><span class="">Conservation, </span><span class="">Fluid preservation, </span><span class="">Institutional critique, </span><span class="">Medical museum</span></div>
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Title</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell">Aesthetics of fluid-preserved animal and human bodies: An example of research-based art</div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Author</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell">Lee, Jung Yoon</div>
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Number of pages</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">231</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Publication year</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">2013</span></div>
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Degree date</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">2013</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">School code</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">0185</span></div>
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Source</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">DAI-A 75/02(E), Aug 2014</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
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<span class="">Ann Arbor</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left"><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">
Country of publication</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">United States</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">ISBN</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">9781303514609</span></div>
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Advisor</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">High, Kathy, </span><span class="">Staniszewski, Mary Anne</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Committee member</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">Hahn, Tomie, </span><span class="">Zurr, Ionat</span></div>
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University/institution</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Department</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">Electronic Arts</span></div>
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University location</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">United States -- New York</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Degree</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">Ph.D.</span></div>
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Source type</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell"><span class="">Dissertations & Theses</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size:12px;line-height:10px;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;clear:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:table-cell;width:200px;zoom:1;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top">Language</div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:table-cell">English</div>
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