
Wound Man
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The Wound Man-a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases-was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In this panoramic book, Jack Hartnell charts the emergence and endurance of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments. Taking readers on a remarkable journey from medieval Europe to eighteenth-century Japan, Hartnell explains the historic popularity of this gruesome image and why the Wound Man continues to intrigue us today.
Drawing on a wealth of original research, Hartnell traces the many lives of the Wound Man, from its origins in late medieval Bohemia to its vivid reincarnations in hundreds of manuscripts and printed books over more than three hundred years. Transporting readers beyond the specifics of bodily injury, Hartnell demonstrates how the Wound Man's body was at once an encyclopedic repository of surgical knowledge, a fantastic literary and religious muse, a catalyst for shifting media landscapes, and a cross-cultural artistic feat that reached diverse audiences around the world. The Wound Man, we discover, held profound importance not only for healers and patients but also for scribes, students, nuns, monks, printmakers, and poets.
Marvelously illustrated, Wound Man sheds light on the entwined histories of art and medicine, showing how premodern medical diagrams represent a unique site of contact between sickness, cure, painting, and print.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Long, Strange Histories
- 1. Diagram: Ambitious Figures
- Diagrammatic Perspectives
- Figura and the Problem of Medicine
- Blood and Words: The Wound Man's Double
- 2. Medicine: Wound Mechanics
- Wounds and the Discontinuous Body
- Disease and the Dreibilderserie
- Visualizing Women
- Wounds, Words, Wundarznei
- Look to the Man
- 3. Affect: Wounds in the World
- Written Woundscapes
- Wounds as Experience and Technique
- Sacred Wounds
- Affective Diagnosis and Prognostication
- 4. Into Print: International Intermediality
- Medicine in the Press
- The Fasciculus medicinae
- Fasiculo, Compendio, Epilogo, Cyrurgie
- Flickering Media
- 5. Image: Wound Man Aesthetics
- The Wound Man as Medical Title Page
- Poetry and Personality
- Three Late Wound Men
- France: The Wound Leg
- England: "Historicall Illustrations
- Japan: Redhead-Style Surgery
- Epilogue: Nuclear Wound Man
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Image Credits
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