Anatomy of the Medical Image

Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-40675-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hau, Michael

Lang, Birgit

Lau, Carolyn

Lempa, Heikki

lenk, stef

Madloch, Joanna

Murnane, Barry

Redner, Jill

Stein, Claudia

Stephens, Elizabeth

Wagner, Corinna

Fliethmann, Axel

Weller, Christiane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für 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 für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.