Medicine And Art Books
Books con argomento Medicine And Art
Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts
Jones Peter Murray
edizioni Univ of Chicago Pr collana Univ of Chicago Pr (Hardcover) , 1997
Drawing on the wealth of medical illustration to be found in medieval manuscripts, Peter Murray Jones traces the history of medieval medicine, the artistic traditions which shaped its depiction and the changing attitudes and beliefs of both medical and artistic practitioners. This beautifully produced book is a revised,...
Visualizing Disease
Meli Domenico Bertoloni
edizioni Univ of Chicago Pr collana Univ of Chicago Pr (Hardcover) , 2018
Body Criticism
Stafford Barbara Maria
edizioni Mit Pr collana Mit Pr (Paperback) , 1993
In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world....
The Scar of Visibility
Kuppers Petra
edizioni Univ of Minnesota Pr collana Univ of Minnesota Pr (Paperback) , 2007
Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging?and the bodily access they imply?to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and the effects?physical, emotional, and social?of medical...
