Anatomy of the medical image : : knowledge production and transfiguration from the renaissance to today / / edited by Axel Fliethmann, Christiane Weller.
This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy,...
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| Superior document: | Clio medica ; volume 104 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller
- I. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ANATOMY AND AESTHETICS
- Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons
- Jill Redner
- Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
- Axel Fliethmann
- Re-imagining the "Birthing Machine:" Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women
- Elizabeth Stephens
- The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal
- Heikki Lempa
- II. IDENTITY AND VISUAL (DE)FORMATION
- Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion
- Corinna Wagner
- The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture
- Joanna Madloch
- Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture
- Carolyn Lau
- "The Quickening:" Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety
- stef lenk
- III. POWER, CONSUMPTION AND THE PATHOLOGICAL BODY
- Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900
- Claudia Stein
- The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic
- Michael Hau
- Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination
- Birgit Lang
- Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections
- Christiane Weller
- Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror
- Barry Murnane
- Bibliography
- Indices.