The art of medicine : over 2,000 years of images and imagination / Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, Emma Shackleton ; foreword by Antony Gormley.
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Chicago : Lewes, UK :
The University of Chicago Press ; Ilex Press,
2011.
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| Physical Description: | 255 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 x 32 cm |
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Contents:
- Chapter 1: Mapping the body
- Anatomy
- Teaching anatomy
- European representations of the middle ages
- Japanese anatomy
- Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Nepalese views
- Visual metaphors of the body
- The body and astrology
- Persian anatomy
- Renaissance views of anatomy
- Andreas Vesalius
- Pierre Boaistuau's Histoire prodigeuses
- Jacques Gautier d'Agoty
- Anatomy in three dimensions
- Exploring the brain
- Inside the face and neck
- Inside the chest and torso
- Écorché images
- The heart
- Representations of pregnancy and the foetus
- Human egg and embryo
- Internal structures of our limbs
- Blood vessels
- Blood
- Skin
- Microscopic mapping of the body
- DNA
- Responses to genetic research
- Chapter 2: Medicine in our lives
- Representations of physicians
- North American First Nations medicine
- Caricatures of physicians
- Hogarth's vision
- Medical caricatures of political figures
- Visions of hospitals
- Visions of nurses
- Childbirth
- Depictions of official medicine sellers
- Representing quacks
- Tonics and curatives
- Medicine and belief
- Momento mori
- Chapter 3: Understanding illness and developing cures
- Representing disease
- Representing cholera
- Visions of smallpox
- Representations of gout
- Uroscopy
- Ayuervedic medicine
- Acupuncture in China
- Acupuncture in Japan
- Astrology
- Alchemy
- Apothecary
- Herbal medicine
- Dodoneaus
- Leonhart Fuchs
- Herbal medicine in the nineteenth century
- Flu and cold
- Depictions of cancer
- Representations of HIV
- Drugs
- Magic
- Chapter 4: Treating with surgery and healing wounds
- The operating theatre
- Bloodletting
- Amputation
- Ambroise Paré, master surgeon
- Eye surgery
- Dental treatments
- Wound man
- Wounds and their treatment
- Charles Bell at the Battle of Waterloo
- Medicine in the field
- Pain and pain relief
- Chapter 5: Understanding the mind and mental illness
- Visions of Bethlem Hospital
- Curing mental illness
- Assessing character and mental faculties
- Diagnosing with physiognomy
- Representing the experience
- Bobby Baker: extracts from a diary
- Chapter 6: Staying well
- Fortification
- Vitamin C under the microscope
- Protection from evil and ill health
- Promoting prevention
- Fighting fit
- Preventing smallpox
- The challenges of syphilis and AIDS.