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Title The body within : art, medicine and visualization / edited by Renée van de Vall, Robert Zwijnenberg
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 176. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 3
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 3
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 176.
Contents Introduction. The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualization / Renee van de Vall -- Ch. 1. Leonardo and Female Interiority / Robert Zwijnenberg -- Ch. 2. Animals Inside: Anatomy, Interiority and Virtue in the Early Modern Dutch Republic / Rina Knoeff -- Ch. 3. Depicting Skin: Microscopy and the Visual Articulation of Skin Interior 1820-1850 / Mieneke te Hennepe -- Ch. 4. The Mind at Work: The Visual Representation of Cerebral Processes / Michael Hagner -- Ch. 5. A Penny for your Thoughts: Brain-Scans and the Mediation of Subjective Embodiment / Renee van de Vall -- Ch. 6. Transparent Bodies: Revealing the Myth of Interiority / Jenny Slatman -- Ch. 7. Looking for a Sponge: How a Body Learns to be Affected by Ultrasound / Maud Radstake -- Ch. 8. Imagin(in)g Pregnancy in Northwest Tanzania: Networks, Experiences, and Translations / Babette Muller-Rockstroh -- Ch. 9. Mediated Memories as Amalgamations of Mind, Matter, and Culture / Jose van Dijck
Ch. 10. Intertwined Identities / Gail Weiss -- Ch. 11. Framing Interiority: Portraits in the Age of Genomics / Miriam van Rijsingen
Summary The central question of this interdisciplinary volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the historical and cultural construction and experience of bodily interiority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human body.
Medicine and art.
Image analysis.
Visual perception.
Human Body
Body Image
Medicine in the Arts
Visual Perception
visual perception.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Visual perception
Human body
Image analysis
Medicine and art
Menselijk lichaam.
Kunst.
Visualisatie.
Form Electronic book
Author Vall, Renée van de, 1956-
Zwijnenberg, Robert, 1954-
ISBN 9789047429654
9047429656
1282949705
9781282949706
9786612949708
6612949708