Book ID: CBB001551094

Elegant Anatomy: The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections (2015)

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Hendriksen, Marieke M. A. (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xi + 249 pp.; ill.
Language: English

In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical collections may seem strange, and undeniably have a morbid aesthetic, yet are neither curiosities nor art. As this book deals with issues related to the keeping and displaying of historical human remains, it is highly relevant for material culture and museum studies, cultural history, the history of scientific collections and the history of medicine alike. Unlike existing literature on historical anatomical collections, this book takes the objects in the collections as its starting point, instead of the people that created them"--From publisher's website.

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Review Daniel Margocsy (2016) Review of "Elegant Anatomy: The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 609-611). unapi

Review Harold J. Cook (2016) Review of "Elegant Anatomy: The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 149-152). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Corti, Claudia
Ambrosi, Moira
Carraro, Sabina
Pieraccini, Giuseppe
Loy, Francesco
Galeotti, Monica
Concepts
Anatomy
Science and art
Wax modeling
Museums
Medicine
Medicine and art
Time Periods
Early modern
19th century
18th century
Modern
Renaissance
20th century
Places
Florence (Italy)
Italy
Leiden (Netherlands)
Zurich (Switzerland)
Great Britain
Sardinia
Institutions
Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale di Firenze
Royal Society of London
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