Elegant Anatomy

The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26278-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: History of Science and Medicine Library

In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical collections may seem strange, and undeniably have a morbid aesthetic, yet are neither curiosities nor art.
As this book deals with issues related to the keeping and displaying of historical human remains, it is highly relevant for material culture and museum studies, cultural history, the history of scientific collections and the history of medicine alike. Unlike existing literature on historical anatomical collections, this book takes the objects in the collections as its starting point, instead of the people that created them.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the material culture of Dutch eighteenth-century science, and anyone concerned with the history of anatomical collections and the issues raised by keeping and displaying historic human remains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendriksen, Marieke M a

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction: Understanding Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomy
2. Elegant Anatomy: Aesthesis
3. Quicksilver Anatomy: Exploring the Lymphatic System with Mercury
4. Hands, Lace, and Plants: Meaningful Embellishments
5. Beautiful Monsters: How Deformity Can Be Elegant
6. Colonial Bodies: Collecting the Exotic Other
7. Back to the Bone: The End of Aesthesis
8. Conclusion: Aesthesis and the Future of Historical Anatomical Collections
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Marieke Hendriksen, Ph.D. (2012), Leiden University, is postdoctoral researcher in the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Groningen. She has published both scholarly and popular work on the material culture of historical scientific collections.