Museum Review: Berlin Museum of Medical History

Principal audiences for this museum included students attending Virchow's lectures, who could then deepen their understanding of disease phenomena, and laypeople interested in "looking beneath the skin" and thus developing a new understanding that informed individual behavior in relat...

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Published in:Bulletin of the history of medicine 2015-07, Vol.89 (2), p.331-332
Main Author: Edmonson, James M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
DIGITAL MEDIA AND HUMANITIES
Disease
Family medical history
Hospitals
Museums
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Summary:Principal audiences for this museum included students attending Virchow's lectures, who could then deepen their understanding of disease phenomena, and laypeople interested in "looking beneath the skin" and thus developing a new understanding that informed individual behavior in relation to health and disease. The Virchow museum's public galleries fell on hard times during World War I, and thereafter they served chiefly only a student population, albeit in a much less inspired manner following its founder's death in 1902.
ISSN:0007-5140
1086-3176
1086-3176
1896-3176
DOI:10.1353/bhm.2015.0038