Malleable Anatomies

Malleable Anatomies

Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Dacome, Lucia (Associate Professor and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Toronto)

Oxford University Press

03/2017

336

Dura

Inglês

9780198736189

15 a 20 dias

An account of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy, showing how anatomical models became an authoritative source of medical knowledge, but also informed social, cultural, and political developments at the crossroads of medical learning, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour spectacle.
Acknowledgments List of Plates List of Figures List of Abbreviation Introduction 1: Prospero's Tools 2: Artificer and Connoisseur 3: Anatomy, Embroidery, and the Fabric of Celebrity 4: Women, Wax, and Anatomy 5: Blindfolding the Midwives 6: Transferring Values 7: Injecting Knowledge Epilogue: Becoming Obsolete Selected Bibliography Index