Swallow
Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
Published on 28. December 2010
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-1-59558-395-6 (ISBN)
Description
Combining original research with a sympathetic and evocative sensibility, award-winning author Mary Cappello restores the narratives, lives and desires of the physician-artist Dr. Chevalier Jackson and his patients that haunt the uncanny collection of items which have been swallowed (both accidentally and deliberately) at the world famous Mutter Museum. Swallow journeys deep into the nature of human experience, both as a literary and psychological exploration which uncovers rather than gawks at sword swallowers and women who lunch on hardware.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
572 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59558-395-6 (9781595583956)
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Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
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Mary Cappello's three previous works of literary nonfiction are Awkward, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; Called Back, a critical memoir on cancer that won a ForeWord Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award; and the memoir Night Bloom. A recipient of the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, she is a former Fulbright lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow) and currently a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence.
Content
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
I. Who Was That Man?
Alone on Floor with Pile of Buttons
Remembering Forward: The Idea of a Legacy
Fbdy #C804, Case #3268, X-rays #48451C and 48460C: The Case of Andrew C.
A Peculiar Chap
"The Life of Chevalier Jackson": Early Prototypes of Rescue
II. How Does Someone Swallow That?
Between Carelessness and Desire: Getting Objects Down
Chevalier Jackson's Traumatic "Phases"
A Catastrophe of Childhood: Gastric Lavage
Chevalier Jackson's Tears: The Case of the Boy Who Cried
Fbdy (multiple) #1173: Gavage: The Case of Joseph B.
Fbdy #2440: A Perfect Attendance Pin, or "Threats to Doctor Jackson's Life"
"Strange Things Were on the Run from Mary's Deepest Depths": Hardware. Swords.
Scopes.
III. What Are These Things?
Fbdy #565: The Case of Margaret Derryberry: Objects Lost and Found and Lost, Again
Object Lessons
Instrumentality and Instruments as Things
Modernist Portals and Secular Tabernacles: Chevalier Jackson Meets Joseph
Cornell
IV. Epilogue
Mystery Bones and the Un-recovered Boy
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
I. Who Was That Man?
Alone on Floor with Pile of Buttons
Remembering Forward: The Idea of a Legacy
Fbdy #C804, Case #3268, X-rays #48451C and 48460C: The Case of Andrew C.
A Peculiar Chap
"The Life of Chevalier Jackson": Early Prototypes of Rescue
II. How Does Someone Swallow That?
Between Carelessness and Desire: Getting Objects Down
Chevalier Jackson's Traumatic "Phases"
A Catastrophe of Childhood: Gastric Lavage
Chevalier Jackson's Tears: The Case of the Boy Who Cried
Fbdy (multiple) #1173: Gavage: The Case of Joseph B.
Fbdy #2440: A Perfect Attendance Pin, or "Threats to Doctor Jackson's Life"
"Strange Things Were on the Run from Mary's Deepest Depths": Hardware. Swords.
Scopes.
III. What Are These Things?
Fbdy #565: The Case of Margaret Derryberry: Objects Lost and Found and Lost, Again
Object Lessons
Instrumentality and Instruments as Things
Modernist Portals and Secular Tabernacles: Chevalier Jackson Meets Joseph
Cornell
IV. Epilogue
Mystery Bones and the Un-recovered Boy