Pratiques visuelles en histoire de l'anatomie

Workshop

Artifacts, Aesthetics, and Authority: Visual Practices in the History of Anatomy and Medicine  

Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science

September 6-7, 2012.

This workshop and the accompanying planned volume will explore authority, epistemology, and aesthetics in the history of anatomy and medicine in a series of case studies centered on a wide range of visual material, and covering diverse aspects of the production and circulation of artifacts and visualizations. It draws together a number of North American and a few international scholars whose training and affiliations are not only in the history of medicine and/or science, but also in art history and museum practice. The papers presented would investigate roles of images and objects in the formation of the anatomical sciences from the eighteenth through the twentieth century in popular culture and medical pedagogy, in orthodox institutional contexts, as well as in nonacademic spaces. They look at practitioners’ own understandings of dissections; the role of specimens in anatomical knowledge production; and the use of anatomical atlases as circulating objects whose aesthetics established authority for their authors.

Organizers
Eva Åhrén, National Institute of Health
Carin Berkowitz, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Speakers
Shauna Devine
Ellery Foutch
Katja Guenther
Ross Jones
Anna Maerker
Erin McLeary
Lisa O’Sullivan
Michael Sappol
John Harley Warner