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Anatomy of the medical image : knowledge production and transfiguration from the renaissance to today /

"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 an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fliethmann, Axel (Editor ), Weller, Christiane, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 104.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics
  • 2 Identity and Visual (De)Formation
  • 3 Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body
  • Part 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics
  • 1. Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lesson
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Approaches to the Paintings
  • 3 Early Responses to Cartesian Physiology: Body versus Mind and Reason versus Revelation
  • 4 Dutch Cartesianism
  • 5 Deyman and His Intellectual Milieu
  • 6 Cultural Effects
  • 7 Rembrandt's View
  • 2. Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Pathology of Imagination: The Case of Girolamo Cardano ­ (1501-1576)
  • 3 Anatomy and Imagination
  • 3. Re-Imagining the "Birthing Machine:" Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models
  • 1 The Radically Muted Aesthetics of Anna Morandi's Medical Moulages
  • 2 Anatomical Venuses and Birthing Machines: The Passive Female Reproductive Body
  • 3 Conclusion
  • 4. The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century
  • 1 Competing Images of Masculinity in the German Lands
  • 2 Developing Regimens of Gymnastic Exercises
  • 3 Conclusion: Making the Classic German Male Body
  • Part 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation
  • 5. Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion
  • 1 Darwin, Psychiatric Photography, and the "Little Yorkshire Cretin"
  • 2 Mechanisms: Duchenne's "Photographic Electro-Physiology"
  • 3 Metaphysics: Duchenne's Sensibility
  • 4 "Why does this being never Blush?": Idiots, Blushing, Shame and Sex
  • 5 Monstrous Faces
  • 6 "The Physiognomy of Disease:" Photographing the Cretin's Face
  • 7 The Big Picture
  • 6. The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture
  • 7. Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture
  • 8. "The Quickening:" Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety
  • 1 "The Quickening,"a Preliminary Overview
  • 2 Conception and Beginning Stages
  • 3 Beyond the Product: Searching for Meaning in Process Materials
  • 4 "The Quickening"
  • 5 Draft 1
  • 6 Draft 3
  • 7 Draft 4
  • 8 Draft 5
  • 9 Draft 7
  • 10 Draft 8
  • 11 Draft 9 (detail)
  • 12 Draft 13
  • 13 Draft 14
  • 14 Draft 22
  • 15 Draft 23 (detail)
  • 16 Draft 25
  • 17 Draft 26 (detail)
  • 18 Draft 27
  • 19 Draft 28
  • 20 Semi-final draft
  • 21 The Comic's Title
  • 22 Conclusion
  • Part 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body
  • 9. Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body
  • 10. The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism
  • 1 Otfried Müller and the Examination of Capillary Structures and Functions
  • 2 Walther Jaensch and Capillary Diagnostics