Violence and the genesis of the anatomical image / Rose Marie San Juan.

  • San Juan, Rose Marie
Date:
[2023]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Examines the function of violence in the making of the anatomical image during the early modern era, exploring its effects on the production of knowledge and on concepts of the body"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Physical description

xi, 206 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index.

Contents

Introduction : violence and the image in transition -- Bodily animation : bones, skulls, and skeletons -- Bodily mutilation : from muscles to flesh and blood -- Bones in transit, flesh in shreds : anatomy and the New World cannibal -- Between face and brain : recalibrating the head -- The rib within : the wax model and the violence of embodiment.

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DA.AL
    		Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9780271093352