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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
