Sharp and telling: Surgical collections as instruments of medicine, history and culture
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Sharp and telling : Surgical collections as instruments of medicine, history and culture. / Tybjerg, Karin.
I: Journal of the History of Collections, Bind 31, Nr. 3, 2019, s. 547-562.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sharp and telling
T2 - Surgical collections as instruments of medicine, history and culture
AU - Tybjerg, Karin
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Surgical instrument collections have been used in a multitude of ways – as tools, taxonomies, teaching aids, representation, historical highlights and public displays – and they provide a key to understanding the shifting relations between surgery, medical museums and medical history. Tracing the uses of the surgical instrument collections from the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery and the Medical Historical Museum at the University of Copenhagen reveals a network of disciplinary and institutional changes from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century. The history of the collections maps relations between scientific and cultural historical collections and between medicine and history. In the same way as surgical instruments have connected the surgeon’s hand to the patients’ body, the surgical instrument collections connect together the public, medical practice and history.
AB - Surgical instrument collections have been used in a multitude of ways – as tools, taxonomies, teaching aids, representation, historical highlights and public displays – and they provide a key to understanding the shifting relations between surgery, medical museums and medical history. Tracing the uses of the surgical instrument collections from the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery and the Medical Historical Museum at the University of Copenhagen reveals a network of disciplinary and institutional changes from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century. The history of the collections maps relations between scientific and cultural historical collections and between medicine and history. In the same way as surgical instruments have connected the surgeon’s hand to the patients’ body, the surgical instrument collections connect together the public, medical practice and history.
U2 - 10.1093/jhc/fhy036
DO - 10.1093/jhc/fhy036
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 547
EP - 562
JO - Journal of the History of Collections
JF - Journal of the History of Collections
SN - 0954-6650
IS - 3
ER -
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