The art of medicine
Subtitle: over 2,000 years of images and imagination
By: Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton ; edited by Nadine Monem ; foreword by Antony Gormley
Contributors: Shackleton, Emma; Barnes, Emm; Gormley, Antony; Monem, Nadine Käthe
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; Ilex Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; Lewes, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780226749365
Subjects: Medicine; Medicine in art; Medical illustration; Pictorial works; History
Description: Presents over 2,000 years of medical illustrations, including paintings, artifacts, drawings, prints, and extracts from manuscripts and manuals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Mapping the body; title: Anatomy; title: Teaching anatomy; title: European representations of the middle ages; title: Japanese anatomy; title: Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Nepalese views; title: Visual metaphors of the body; title: The body and astrology; title: Persian anatomy; title: Renaissance views of anatomy; title: Andreas Vesalius; title: Pierre Boaistuau's Histoire prodigeuses; title: Jacques Gautier d'Agoty; title: Anatomy in three dimensions; title: Exploring the brain; title: Inside the face and neck; title: Inside the chest and torso; title: Écorché images; title: The heart; title: Representations of pregnancy and the foetus; title: Human egg and embryo; title: Internal structures of our limbs; title: Blood vessels; title: Blood; title: Skin; title: Microscopic mapping of the body; title: DNA; title: Responses to genetic research; title: Chapter 2: Medicine in our lives; title: Representations of physicians; title: North american First Nations medicine; title: Caricatures of physicians; title: Hogarth's vision; title: Medical caricatures of political figures; title: Visions of hospitals; title: Visions of nurses; title: Childbirth; title: Depictions of official medicine sellers; title: Representing quacks; title: Tonics and curatives; title: Medicine and belief; title: Momento mori; title: Chapter 3: Understanding illness and developing cures; title: Representing disease; title: Representing cholera; title: Visions of smallpox; title: Representations of gout; title: Uroscopy; title: Ayuervedic medicine; title: Acupuncture in China; title: Acupuncture in Japan; title: Astrology; title: Alchemy; title: Apothecary; title: Herbal medicine; title: Dodoneaus; title: Leonhart Fuchs; title: Herbal medicine in the nineteenth century; title: Flu and cold; title: Depictions of cancer; title: Representations of HIV; title: Drugs; title: Magic; title: Chapter 4: Treating with surgery and healing wounds; title: The operating theatre; title: Bloodletting; title: Amputation; title: Ambroise Paré, master surgeon; title: Eye surgery; title: Dental treatments; title: Wound man; title: Wounds and their treatment; title: Charles Bell at the Battle of Waterloo; title: Medicine in the field; title: Pain and pain relief; title: Chapter 5: Understanding the mind and mental illness; title: Visions of Bethlem Hospital; title: Curing mental illness; title: Assessing character and mental faculties; title: Diagnosing with physiognomy; title: Representing the experience; title: Bobby Baker: extracts from a diary; title: Chapter 6: Staying well; title: Fortification; title: Vitamin C under the microscope; title: Protection from evil and ill health; title: Promoting prevention; title: Fighting fit; title: Preventing smallpox; title: The challenges of syphilis and aids.