Bodies beyond borders : moving anatomies, 1750-1950 / edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, Sokhieng Au.
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 ba...
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Leuven, Belgium :
Leuven University Press,
[2017]
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Table of 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.