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Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image /
Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dis...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Violence and the Image in Transition
- 1. Bodily Animation: Bones, Skulls, and Skeletons
- 2. Bodily Mutation: From Muscles to Flesh and Blood
- 3. Bones in Transit, Flesh in Shreds: Anatomy and the New World Cannibal
- 4. Between Face and Brain: Recalibrating the Head
- 5. The Rib Within: The Wax Model and the Violence of Embodiment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index