Making sense of medicine : material culture and the reproduction of medical knowledge / edited by John Nott and Anna Harris ; with special contributions by Rachel Vaden Allison [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nott, John (Economic and medical historian), Editor.

Harris, Anna (Medical anthropologist), editor.

Allison, Rachel Vaden, contributor.

Series:

Global health humanities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Medical.

Medical education.

Material culture.

Medical Subjects:

Education, Medical.

Physical Description:

457 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect Books, 2022.

Summary:

"A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and reproduction of medical knowledge. Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft. To that end, this edited collection brings together historians, anthropologists, educators artists and curators to explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad temporal focus, international scope, this volume focuses on the materials, objects, tools and technologies that facilitate the reproduction of medical knowledge and often also reify understandings of medical science. Experimental in form and supplemented with ethnographic, museological and historical cases from around the world, Making Sense of Medicine is the first book to fully explore the matter of medical education in the modern world."--book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: What matters in medical eduction? / John Nott and Anna Harris

Architecture. Designing a discipline: Architecture for pathology in the interwar period / Annmarie Adams

Art. Objectivity, art and medical images / Sally Wyatt

Balloons. Lessons from a balloon / Christine den Harder and Anna Harris

Cadavers. The geography of the dead and the movement of the living: Kinetic consciousness and the limits of the cadaver / Rachel Prentice

Chalkboards. Anatomy of the chalkboard / Rachel Vaden Allison

Cigarette papers. The cigarette paper, the embroiderer, and the gendered craft of vascular surgery / Paul Craddock

Circulation. Circulated concepts, images and objects / Harro van Lente

Dissecting rooms. 'The lady anatomist': fragmented bodies, photographic assemblage and the 'art' of dissection at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1895-98 / Jessica M. Dandona

Film. 'See for yourself: Autopsy film as audio-visual mediation of learning experiences, c.1928-62 / Christian Bonah and Joël Danet

Film. 'Now we are going to look at a piece of film': Projecting medicine in twentieth century medical education / Angela Saward

Gardens. Groundwork for planetary health: Reimagining gardens in medical education / Stacey Langwick and Mary Mosha

Gloves. The context of touch: gloves and pelvic exam / Kelly Underman

Handbooks. Chinese medical illustrations and Communist materialism, 1950-1966 / Lan Li

Hearts. The heart of the simulated matter: Interprofessional training practices of clinical care / Ivana Guarrasi

Illustrations. Performed with care: Enacting accuracy in medical illustration / Drew Danielle Belsky

Illustrations. Material images: Flesh on paper in twentieth-century surgical drawing / Harriet Palfreyman

Illustrations. The Radford Collection: Exploring and experiencing the mid nineteenth-century midwifery lecture / Rebecca Whiteley

Labour. Invisible work / Sally Wyatt

Microscopes. The virtual microscope: Tracing knowledge through digital images / R. Claire Aland, Nicole Shepherd, Belinda Swyny and Mary-Louise Roy Manchadi

Museums. The pathology museum at Korle Bu / Robert Kumoji and John Nott

Nurservers. The nurserver / David Theodore

Photographs. Typologies of fatness: Constitutional photography in Western medicine, c.1930-60 / Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen

Place. Matters of place and affect / Rachel Vaden Allison and John Nott

Props. Props in breaking bad news simulation / Kaisu Koski and Kirsten Ostherr

Radiographs. Lasers, screens and models: The material assemblages of learning pattern recognition in radiography education / Peter D. Winter

Simulation. Simulations in health professions education / Andrea Wojcik

Skulls. Medical museums, materiality, and the traumatic brain injury of Phineas Gage / Denielle Elliott with Dominic Hall

Stethoscopes. This thing, a stethoscope / Claire Wendland

Textiles. Materialities of surgery: Learning through thread / Roger Kneebone and Fleur Oakes

Ultrasounds. Developing ultrasound: Knowledge dissemination and technological change, 1945-1980 / Jakob Lehne

Wounds. The fake wound: Thinking through materials in OSCE simulations / Andrea Wojcik, Victor Mogre, Anthony Amalba, Celia Yamile Rodriguez and Francis A. Abantanga

Zebras. Zebras, not horses: On limits and margins of biomedical knowledge / Candida F. Sánchez Burmester

Notes on contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781789385779

1789385776

OCLC:

1346307204