Description: A thematic overview of how the human body was perceived in the period from 1800 to 1920, covering birth and death, health and disease, sex and eroticism, medicine, popular beliefs and the self.
Brief description: Michael Sappol is Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a historian of visual culture and performance of medicine and science. He was Historian, Scholar-in-Residence and Exhibition Curator at the National Library of Medicine, USA between 1998 and 2016.