Bodies Beyond Borders: Moving Anatomies, 1750-1950

01. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-94-6270-094-9
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

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. Together, the essays enable rethinking the relations between metropolis and colony, university and fairground, and scientific and artistic representations of the human body.

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Contributors: Sokhieng Au (KU Leuven), Margaret Carlyle (University of Minnesota), Tinne Claes (KU Leuven), Veronique Deblon (KU Leuven), Raf De Bont (Maastricht University), Stephen C. Kenny (University of Liverpool), Helen MacDonald (University of Melbourne), Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (University of Essex), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University), Naomi Slipp (Auburn University-Montgomery), Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wils, Kaat

Bont, Raf

De Bont, Raf

Au, Sokhieng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Moving Anatomies, 1750-;1950Sokhieng Au, Raf de Bont, Kaat Wils
I CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES
Artisans, Patrons, and Enlightenment: The Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge in Paris, St. Petersburg, and LondonMargaret Carlyle
Anatomy and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century BelgiumJoris Vandendriessche
Corpse Stories: Anatomy, Bodies and a Colonial WorldHelen MacDonald
Anatomical Collecting and Tropical Medicine in the Belgian CongoSokhieng Au
II ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
Imitating Anatomy: Recycling Anatomical Illustrations in Nineteenth-Century AtlasesVeronique 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 TrainStephen C. Kenny
III ART AND MEDICINE 195
International Anatomies: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Harvard Lecture HallNaomi 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 authorsGallery with color plates

Über Autor(innen)

Wils, Kaat
Kaat Wils is professor of European cultural history since 1750 at KU Leuven.

Au, Sokhieng
Sokhieng Au is programme staff in the Analysis and Advocacy unit of Médecins Sans Frontières and a research fellow in history at KU Leuven.

De Bont, Raf
Raf de Bont is lecturer at the History Department of Maastricht University.