Visualizing disease : the art and history of pathological illustrations / Domenico Bertoloni Meli.

  • Bertoloni Meli, Domenico
Date:
2017
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Physical description

xvi, 294 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CV.AL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226110295
  • 022611029X