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Author Bertoloni Meli, Domenico, author

Title Visualizing disease : the art and history of pathological illustrations / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bodies, Diseases, Images -- 1. Visualizing Disease in the Early Modern Period -- 2. "Sic nata est anatome pathologica picta": The Diseases of Bones -- 3. Preserved Specimens and Comprehensive Treatises -- 4. Intermezzo: Identifying Disease in Its Inception -- 5. The Nosology of Cutaneous Diseases -- 6. Morbid Anatomy in Color -- 7. Comprehensive Treatises in Color -- Concluding Reflections -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-16th century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. Domenico Bertoloni Meli explores key questions in this domain, opening a new field of inquiry based on the analysis of a rich body of arresting and intellectually challenging images reproduced here both in black and white and in colour
Notes Preface Introduction: Bodies, Diseases, Images Chapter 1. Visualizing Disease in the Early Modern Period Chapter 2: 'Sic nata est anatome pathologica picta': The Diseases of Bones Chapter 3. Preserved Specimens and Comprehensive Treatises Chapter 4. Intermezzo: Identifying Disease in Its Inception Chapter 5. The Nosology of Cutaneous Diseases Chapter 6. Morbid Anatomy in Color Chapter 7. Comprehensive Treatises in Color Concluding Reflections Acknowledgments Illustration Credits List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical illustration -- History
Medicine and art -- History
Anatomy, Artistic -- History
HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism
HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference
MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine
MEDICAL / Atlases
MEDICAL / Essays
MEDICAL / Family & General Practice
MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine
MEDICAL / Osteopathy
Anatomy, Artistic
Medical illustration
Medicine and art
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226463636
022646363X