MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03466nam a22003258a 4500
001 2011019933
003 DLC
005 20110517142645.0
008 110510s2011 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011019933
020 $a9780226749365 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0226749363 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aN8223$b.A53 2011
082 00 $a610.22/2$223
100 1 $aAnderson, Julie,$d1965-
245 14 $aThe art of medicine :$bover 2,000 years of images and imagination /$cJulie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton ; edited by Nadine Monem ; foreword by Antony Gormley.
260 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press ;$aLewes, UK :$bIlex Press,$c2011.
263 $a1108
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aChapter 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.
650 0 $aMedicine in art.
650 0 $aMedicine$xHistory$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aMedical illustration$xHistory.
700 1 $aShackleton, Emma.
700 1 $aBarnes, Emm.
700 1 $aGormley, Antony.
700 1 $aMonem, Nadine Käthe.