Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm
Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6085-0
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
We live today in an age of biomedical visions. The disenchantment of the body through visualization technologies is seemingly unending and the promise of health irresistible. Yet alongside these promissory technologies we find the persistence of epistemic uncertainty, overdiagnosis, unnecessary interventions and healthcare inequalities. Life and sickness happen in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological visions of health and disease, and it is this in-between space that our collection sets out to explore. Each contribution is the product of a unique coming together of two or more authors, each with their own way of thinking about biomedicine, knowledge and the visual. Perspectives from art history, visual studies of science, science and technology studies, sociology and cultural anthropology converge with watercolor paintings, sculptures, comic strips, advertisements and infographics. Each pairing explores one of three interconnected questions: how do images make epistemic things accessible within biomedicine, how do they make expert knowledge intelligible beyond biomedicine and how can we make art objects with biomedicine. The topics range over a wide spectrum of biomedical themes – personalized medicine, neuroimaging, pathology, genetic counseling, Alzheimer’s disease, endometriosis, chronic fatigue and structural inequalities in healthcare. Yet at its core, Biomedical Visions is a series of meditations on a simple yet painful truth: images are a primary way of knowing the body, yet they inevitably promise too much and disappoint us in our pursuit of corporeal self-control. This collection draws together different perspectives on epistemology, medicine and artistic practice to make sense both of how biomedicine looks and how we might look differently at biomedicine, in the past, and in the future.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Werbung & Gesellschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Wasserfarbe, Aquarell
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pathologie, Cytopathologie, Histopathologie
