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An edition of The art of medicine (2011)

The art of medicine

over 2,000 years of images and imagination

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  • 1 Want to read

Presents over 2,000 years of medical illustrations, including paintings, artifacts, drawings, prints, and extracts from manuscripts and manuals.

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The University of Chicago Press, Ilex Press
Language
English
Pages
255

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Subjects

Medical illustration, Medicine, Medicine in art, History, Pictorial works, Medicine and art, Medicine, pictorial works, Medicine in the Arts
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2011, The University of Chicago Press, Ilex Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Chicago, Lewes, UK

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610.22/2
Library of Congress
N8223 .A53 2011, N8223.A53 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
255

ID Numbers

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OL24857967M
ISBN 10
0226749363
ISBN 13
9780226749365
LCCN
2011019933
OCLC/WorldCat
712117489

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