Blog Post 11: Open Topic--Mütter Museum, Freakshows, Colonial Spectacle

By 9 pm on Sunday November 28, please post a 600-word response to the course material and discussion from this week. The topic for this response is open so you can write about a topic that you're most interested in, but your post must engage in some way with the readings, cultural productions, and/or class discussion from this week (Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's chapter "From Wonder to Error--A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity," the Mütter Museum, medical museums, historical or contemporary "freak shows," the spectacle of the devalued body, medicine's visual culture as popular entertainment, legacies of colonialism and world fairs, etc.).

Also, by 9 pm on Monday November 29, please make a minimum of 2 comments on your classmates' posts.