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- Title
Bodies of Knowledge: The Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Atlas in the Spaces of Art and Science.
- Authors
STELMACKOWICH, CINDY
- Abstract
Discusses the development of anatomical atlases in Western Europe in the 19th century. Influenza and cholera epidemics that broke out in Western Europe in the 19th century caused public health organizations to promote the aims of the medical profession. A healthy state was dependent on the healthy bodies of its citizens. After passage of the Anatomy Act in Britain, 1832, which made cadaver use by medical students and doctors legal, a new corporeal landscape and medical discourse related to pathological bodies emerged out of anatomical atlases, such as Jean-Marc Bourgery's (1797-1849) 'Traite Complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme' (1830-49), which incorporated elements of artistic realism. Disease progression could now be studied by looking at the inter-relatedness of internal organs, considered, at this point, to be the sites of all physical diseases. Anatomical atlases, which offered precise, human-scale drawings, were powerful teaching tools meant to reinforce medical truths as put forward by the professional status quo.
- Publication
RACAR: Canadian Art Review / Revue d'art Canadienne, 2008, Vol 33, Issue 1/2, p75
- ISSN
0315-9906
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1069549ar