| Modern embalming, circulation of fluids, and the voyage through the human arterial system: Carl L. Barnes and the culture of immortality in America. | |
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PMID: 21936206 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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By considering the work of American embalmer, lawyer, and physician Carl Lewis Barnes (1872-1927), this paper analyzes the emergence of modern embalming in America. Barnes experimented with and exhibited the techniques by which embalming fluids travelled into the most remote cavities of the human body. In this sense, modem embalmers based their skills and methods on experimental medicine, turning the anatomy of blood vessels, physiology of circulation, and composition of blood into a circuit that allowed embalming fluids to move throughout the corpse. Embalmers in the late 19th century took ownership of the laws of hydrodynamics and the physiology of blood circulation to market their fluids and equipment, thus playing the role of physiologists of death, performing and demonstrating physiological experiments with dead bodies. |
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Authors:
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Irina Podgorny |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: Nuncius / Istituto e museo di storia della scienza Volume: 26 ISSN: 0394-7394 ISO Abbreviation: Nuncius Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-09-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8807530 Medline TA: Nuncius Country: Italy |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 109-31 Citation Subset: QIS |
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CONICET, Archive of Museo de La Plata, Argentina. podgorny@retina.ar |
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