Visualizing disease : the art and history of pathological illustrations /

Visualizing disease : the art and history of pathological illustrations /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bertoloni Meli, Domenico, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xvi, 294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical illustration -- History. Medicine and art -- History. Anatomy, Artistic -- History. Medical Illustration -- history. Pathologic Processes -- history. Anatomy, Artistic -- history. Anatomy, Artistic. Medical illustration. Medicine and art. History.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's UCPress copy has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11672927

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ISBN:	9780226110295 022611029X 9780226463636
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. With Visualizing Disease, Domenico Bertoloni Meli explores key questions in this domain, opening a new field of inquiry based on the analysis of a rich body of arresting and intellectually challenging images reproduced here both in black and white and in color. Starting in the Renaissance, Bertoloni Meli delves into the wide range of figures involved in the early study and representation of disease, including not just men of medicine, like anatomists, physicians, surgeons, and pathologists, but also draftsmen and engravers. Pathological preparations proved difficult to preserve and represent, and as Bertoloni Meli takes us through a number of different cases from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, we gain a new understanding of how knowledge of disease, interactions among medical men and artists, and changes in the technologies of preservation and representation of specimens interacted to slowly bring illustration into the medical world.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: bodies, diseases, images
Visualizing disease in the early modern period
"Sic nata est anatome pathologica picta": the diseases of bones
Preserved specimens and comprehensive treatises
Intermezzo: identifying disease in its inception
The nosology of cutaneous diseases
Morbid anatomy in color
Comprehensive treatises in color
Concluding reflections.