Bodies beyond borders : moving anatomies, 1750-1950 / edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, Sokhieng Au.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wils, Kaat, editor.

Bont, Raf de, 1977- editor.

Au, Sokhieng, editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anatomy, Artistic--history.

Human Body.

Models, Anatomic.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Human anatomy--Models--History.

Human anatomy.

Anatomy, Artistic--History.

Anatomy, Artistic.

Human anatomy--History.

History.

Human anatomy--Models.

Medical Subjects:

Anatomy, Artistic--history.

Human Body.

Models, Anatomic.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The human body in scientific and artistic representations. Around 1800 anatomy as a discipline rose to scientific prominence as it undergirded the Paris-centred clinical revolution in medicine. Although classical anatomy gradually lost ground in the following centuries in favor of new disciplines based on microscopic analysis, general anatomy nevertheless remained pivotal in the teaching of medicine. Corpses, anatomical preparations, models, and drawings were used more intensively than ever before. Moreover, anatomy received new forms of public visibility. Through public exhibitions and lectures in museums and fairgrounds, anatomy became part of general education and secured a place in popular imagination. As such, the anatomical body developed into a production site for racial, gender, and class identities. Both within the medical and the public sphere, art and science continued to be closely intertwined in anatomical representations of the body. 'Bodies Beyond Borders' analyzes the notion of circulation in anatomy. Following anatomy through different locations and cultural domains permits a deeper understanding of its history and its changing place in society. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of circulating ideas and objects, ranging from models and body parts to illustrations and texts.

Contents:

Introduction: Moving anatomies, 1750-1950 / Sokhieng Au, Raf de Bont, Kaat Wils

1. Centers and peripheries. Artisans, patrons, and enlightenment: the circulation of anatomical knowledge in Paris, St. Petersburg, and London / Margaret Carlyle

Anatomy and sociability in nineteenth-century Belgium / Joris Vandendriessche

Corpse stories: anatomy, bodies and a colonial world / Helen MacDonald

Anatomical collecting and tropical medicine in the Belgian Congo / Sokhieng Au

2. Academic and public knowledge. Imitating anatomy: recycling anatomical illustrations in nineteenth-century atlases / Veronique Deblon

Alternative anatomy: the popular lectures of Constant Crommelinck in Brussels (1850

1880) / Tinne Claes

"Specimens calculated to shock the soundest sleeper": deep layers of anatomical racism circulated on-board the Louisiana Health Exhibit Train / Stephen C. Kenny

3. Art and medicine. International anatomies: teaching visual literacy in the Harvard Lecture Hall / Naomi Slipp

Shaking the tyranny of the cadaver: Doctor Paul Richer and the "Living Écorché" / Natasha Ruiz-Gómez

Animating the anatomical specimen: textbook anatomy and the incorporation of photography in JCB Grant's "An atlas of anatomy" / Kim Sawchuk

About the authors

Gallery with color plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789462700949

946270094X

OCLC:

972772101

Publisher Number:

99974672037