ISBN:
9781848933217
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p)
Series Statement:
""The Body, Gender and Culture
Series Statement:
The Body, Gender and Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500-1850
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Human anatomy--Research--Europe--History
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Human anatomy ; Research ; Europe ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I: The Body as a Map; 1 Early Modern Dissection as a Physical Model of Organization; 2 'Who Will Not Force a Mad Man to be Let Blood?': Circulation and Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century; 3 Earth's Intelligent Body: Subterranean Systems and the Circulation of Knowledge, or, The Radius Subtending Circumnavigation; 4 'After an Unwonted Manner': Anatomy and Poetical Organization in Early Modern England
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Subtle Bodies: The Limits of Categories in Girolamo Cardano's De SubtilitatePart II: The Collective Body; 6 Mirroring, Anatomy, Transparency: The Collective Body and the Co-opted Individual in Spenser, Hobbes and Bunyan; 7 From Human to Political Body and Soul: Materialism and Mortalism in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes; 8 Visualizing the Fibre-Woven Body: Nehemiah Grew's Plant Anatomy and the Emergence of the Fibre Body; 9 Forms of Materialist Embodiment; Part III: Bodies Visualized; 10 Visualizing Monsters: Anatomy as a Regulatory System
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Anatomy, Newtonian Physiology and Learned Culture: The Myotomia Reformata and its Context within Georgian Scholarship12 Art and Medicine: Creative Complicity between Artistic Representation and Research; 13 The Internal Environment: Claude Bernard's Concept and its Representation in Fantastic Voyage; Notes; Index
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