The art of medicine : over 2,000 years of images and imagination

The art of medicine Over 2,000 years of images and imagination

Julie Anderson, 1965-

Book - 2011

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Subjects
Medicine and art.
Medicine > History > Pictorial works.
Medical illustration > History.
Published
Chicago : Lewes, UK : The University of Chicago Press ; Ilex Press 2011.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Wellcome Collection
Main Author
Julie Anderson, 1965- (-)
Corporate Author
Wellcome Collection (-)
Other Authors
Emma Shackleton (-), Emm Barnes
Item Description
"In association with Wellcome Collection"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description
255 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 x 32 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780226749365
  • 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.
Review by Choice Review

The Art of Medicine could have been more precisely titled "Over 2,000 Years of Medical Images and Imagination," a modification of its subtitle. It is a visual treat. The contents are a stunning range of illustrations drawn from the diverse, eclectic holdings of London's Wellcome Collection, assembled originally by eminent drug manufacturer Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936), and subsequently enlarged by his very well-endowed foundation. Some of these are undeniably great, and some are minor works of art representative of many cultures. Others are more curious, such as an early-20th-century medical bottle or examples of high-technology photography, including a fantastic image titled "A Six-Day-Old Human Embryo Implanting." The illustrations are divided into six chapters whose arrangement is not always comfortable or cohesive, but always engrossing. Anderson and Barnes (both, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London) and Shackleton (visual arts editor/writer) have created an incredible window into a major collection of immense importance featuring many rare and never before published objects, ephemera, and artwork. It is a crossover book of great value to medical and art historians, ethnologists, and graphic designers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. I. Richman emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Campus

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This astonishingly various visual encyclopedia, a fraction of the collection of the Wellcome Trust's million objects (the trust is a British medical research foundation)-represents a wunderkammer focused on multifarious cross-cultural representations of the human body in anatomical studies, etchings, paintings, and advertisements. The book is organized thematically into six chapters about the body, medicine, disease, surgery, mental illness, and preventive medicine; each is replete with images accompanied by informative texts. Most fascinating are the sections on medicine, healing, and belief in ancient Egypt and Greece; traditional Chinese demon masks to scare off disease-causing evil spirits; and Christian imagery of, for example, a saint healing through touch and faith. The treatment of mental illness is illustrated with images from London's notoriously brutal Bethlem Royal hospital (the original Bedlam). Several sections, particularly on anatomy and surgery, are not for the fainthearted. Compiled by medical historian Anderson, Royal Holloway University science outreach officer Barnes, and visual arts writer Shackleton, this visually arresting, wide-ranging, and informative collection pre-sents an encyclopedic global history of the body, illness, and medicine. 350 color and 50 b&w illus., all very well reproduced. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Library Journal Review

This collection of hundreds of diverse objects, illustrated in exceptional color plates and drawn mostly from London's Wellcome Collection, showcases the lore of illness, treatment, and wellness. Compiled by Anderson (history of medicine, Univ. of Kent), Emm Barnes (science outreach officer, Royal Holloway Univ.), and visual arts writer Emma Shackleton, these examples of art and artifacts depict medicine in perception and practice. The book aims to "arouse interest" in medicine and provides delightful, detailed visuals and explanations in six thematic sections. While many kinds of artistic styles and media are featured, only a few artists are spotlighted with their own subsections; however, artists in general are honored throughout as explorers and skillful recorders of scientific observation. VERDICT While this book lacks the scholarly depth of Jean Rousselot's Medicine in Art: a Cultural History (1967, o.p.), it shines via its eclectic juxtaposition of ancient and contemporary objects like amulets, outsider art, microscopic photos, and medieval manuscripts. An enticing medical cabinet of art curiosities, this book's offerings go down easily and make you want more. Highly recommended.-Marianne Laino Sade, Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art Lib., Baltimore (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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