Anatomy of the Medical Image
Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2021
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-90-04-40675-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy, to Foucault's "birth of the clinic" and the institutionalised construction of a "medical gaze"; from "visual" archives of madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media representations.
Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect.
Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.
Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect.
Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40675-9 (9789004406759)
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Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektuere.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte ueber Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fuer germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fuer germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fuer germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Intoduction
?Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller
PART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics
1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons
?Jill Redner
2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
?Axel Fliethmann
3 Re-Imagining the "Birthing Machine:" Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women
?Elizabeth Stephens
4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal
?Heikki Lempa
PART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation
5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion
?Corinna Wagner
6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture
?Joanna Madloch
7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture
?Carolyn Lau
8 "The Quickening:" Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety
?stef lenk
PART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body
9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900
?Claudia Stein
10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic
?Michael Hau
11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination
?Birgit Lang
12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections
?Christiane Weller
13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror
?Barry Murnane
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Intoduction
?Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller
PART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics
1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons
?Jill Redner
2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
?Axel Fliethmann
3 Re-Imagining the "Birthing Machine:" Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women
?Elizabeth Stephens
4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal
?Heikki Lempa
PART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation
5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion
?Corinna Wagner
6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture
?Joanna Madloch
7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture
?Carolyn Lau
8 "The Quickening:" Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety
?stef lenk
PART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body
9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900
?Claudia Stein
10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic
?Michael Hau
11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination
?Birgit Lang
12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections
?Christiane Weller
13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror
?Barry Murnane
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects