Swallow

by Cappello, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781595587770
• ISBN10: 1595587772
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

A beguiling and deeply rewarding exploration of Philadelphia's Mutter Museum Foreign Body Collection, drawers filled with items that have been swallowed. It is also a quirky portrait of Dr Chevalier Jackson, the pioneering laryngologist who extracted these items non-surgically. Animating the space between interest and terror, curiosity and dread, Capello explores the physiology of the human swallow, the poignant and psychology that compels people to ingest non-nutritive items. A history of racism, violence, class and poverty and forced ingestion.

Author Biography

Mary Cappello is the author of Awkward (a Los Angeles Times bestseller), Called Back, and Night Bloom. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, she teaches at the University of Rhode Island and lives in Providence.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xi
Who Was That Man?	p. 1
"Alone on Floor with Pile of Buttons"	p. 1
Remembering Forward: The Idea of a Legacy	p. 25
Fbdy #C804, Case #3268, X-rays #48451C and 48460C: The Case of Andrew C.	p. 39
A Peculiar Chap	p. 45
"The Life of Chevalier Jackson": Early Prototypes of Rescue	p. 52
How Does Someone Swallow That?
Between Carelessness and Desire: Getting Objects Down	p. 57
Chevalier Jackson's Traumatic "Phases"	p. 72
A Catastrophe of Childhood: Gastric Lavage	p. 82
Chevalier Jackson's Tears: The Case of the Boy Who Cried	p. 91
Fbdy (Multiple) #1173: Gavage: The Case of Joseph B.	p. 102
Fbdy #2440: A Perfect Attendance Pin	p. 119
"Strange Things Were on the Run from Mary's Deepest Depths": Hardware, Swords, Scopes	p. 137
What Are These Things?	p. 193
Fbdy #565: The Case of Margaret Derryberry: Objects Lost and Found and Lost Again	p. 193
Instrumentality and Instruments as Things	p. 204
Modernist Portals and Secular Tabernacles: Chevalier Jackson Meets Joseph Cornell	p. 222
Mystery Bones and the Unrecovered Boy	p. 235
Select Bibliography	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Index	p. 283
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