Rather than assembling a straightforward factual survey of British medical museums, Sam Alberti presents in this wholly admirable volume a notably well-documented account of the philosophical as well as the institutional progress of anatomical (often pathological) collections in his chosen period, with numerous backward glances to its origins in the 1700s and with thoughtful comments on its continuing resonances.
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Alberti et al. (2015) studied this question.