"The mysteries of the dead body" : death, embodiment, and social identity -- "A genuine zeal" : the anatomical era in American medicine -- "Anatomy is the charm" : dissection and medical identity in nineteenth-century America -- "A traffic of dead bodies" : the contested bioethics of anatomy in antebellum America -- "Indebted to the dissecting knife" : alternative medicine and anatomical consensus in antebellum America -- "The house I live in" : popular anatomy and embodied social identity in antebellum America -- "The foul altar of a dissecting table" : anatomy, sex, and sensationalist fiction at mid-century -- The education of Sammy Tubbs : anatomical dissection, minstrelsy, and the technology of self-making in postbellum America -- "Anatomy out of gear" : popular anatomy at the margins in late-nineteenth-century America