
Bodies Beyond Borders
Moving Anatomies, 1750-1950
Leuven University Press
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-94-6270-094-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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-Gomez (University of Essex), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University), Naomi Slipp (Auburn University-Montgomery), Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)
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.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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-Gomez (University of Essex), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University), Naomi Slipp (Auburn University-Montgomery), Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)
Reviews / Votes
This is a successful and thought-provoking collection, relying on recent historiography, and extensively illustrated - including several color plates.Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 221-223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrz006 With movement as a common thread among the papers, the editors draw out multiple facets of anatomy and anatomical objects as they permeated and transformed along with medical heritage and education.Tricia Close-Koenig, ISIS-Volume 110, Number 1, March 2019 No hay duda del asiento que tienen todos los capitulos en la transformacion historiografica operada en las ultimas decadas dando centralidad al marco analitico proporcionado por la cultura material, los estudios visuales, el giro espacial o los museum studies. El resultado final, estructurado en tres ambitos, pone de manifiesto una rica variedad de situaciones y significados, que ocurren en la medida en que se produce el desplazamiento o la interseccion de lo anatomico. [...] El libro resultara util a quien entre en estos ambitos que ponen en jaque planteamientos dicotomicos, pues los estudios se fundamentan en lenguajes y recursos transdisciplinares y aportan ademas un enorme y actualizado aparato critico. Alfons Zarzoso, Dynamis 2018; 38 (2): 505-540 'aan te raden voor geinteresseerden in de geschiedenis van medische wetenschappen, materialiteit en wetenschappelijke personae. De platen achter in het boek zijn prachtig.'
Fenneke Sysling, Studium 10/2 (2017)
More details
Edition
01
Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
35 Halftones, black and white; 16 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6270-094-9 (9789462700949)
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Persons
Kaat Wils is gewoon hoogleraar aan de onderzoeksgroep Cultuurgeschiedenis vanaf 1750 en voorzitter van de Onderzoekseenheid Geschiedenis van de KU Leuven.
Kaat Wils is professor of European cultural history since 1750 at KU Leuven.
Raf de Bont is lecturer at the History Department of Maastricht University. Sokhieng Au is programme staff in the Analysis and Advocacy unit of Medecins Sans Frontieres and a research fellow in history at KU Leuven.
Kaat Wils is professor of European cultural history since 1750 at KU Leuven.
Raf de Bont is lecturer at the History Department of Maastricht University. Sokhieng Au is programme staff in the Analysis and Advocacy unit of Medecins Sans Frontieres and a research fellow in history at KU Leuven.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Moving Anatomies, 1750-;1950 Sokhieng Au, Raf de Bont, Kaat Wils
I 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
II 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
III ART AND MEDICINE 195
International Anatomies: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Harvard Lecture Hall Naomi Slipp
Shaking the Tyranny of the Cadaver: Doctor Paul Richer and the "Living Ecorche" Natasha Ruiz-Gomez
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
Introduction: Moving Anatomies, 1750-;1950 Sokhieng Au, Raf de Bont, Kaat Wils
I 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
II 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
III ART AND MEDICINE 195
International Anatomies: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Harvard Lecture Hall Naomi Slipp
Shaking the Tyranny of the Cadaver: Doctor Paul Richer and the "Living Ecorche" Natasha Ruiz-Gomez
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