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THE FACE OF MEDICINE
VISUALISING MEDICAL MASCULINITIES IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS |
| By: |
Mary Hunter |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£85.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719097576 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719097577 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2015 |
| Series: |
Rethinking Art's Histories |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery. -- . |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late-nineteenth-century France. It sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery. By examining previously unstudied sources that traverse disciplinary boundaries, this original study rethinks the politics of medical representations and their social impact. Through a focused examination of paintings from the 1886 and 1887 Paris Salons that portray famous men from the medical and scientific elite - Louis Pasteur, Jules-Emile Pean and Jean-Martin Charcot - along with the images and objects that these men made for personal and occupational purposes, Hunter argues that artworks and medical collections played a key role in forming the public face of scientific medicine. -- . |
| Illustrations: |
60 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
| Returns: |
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