Human remains : medicine, death, and desire in nineteenth-century Paris / Jonathan Strauss.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medicine and authority -- The medical uses of nonsense -- A hostile environment -- Death comes alive -- Pleasure in revolt -- Monsters and artists -- Abstracting desire -- What abjection means.