The body within : art, medicine and visualization

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The body within : art, medicine and visualization

edited by Renée van de Vall, Robert Zwijnenberg

(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 176 . Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 3)

Brill, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index

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The central question of this volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the experience of bodily interiority. These visualisation techniques enable not only medical researchers and practitioners to look inside living bodies without literally opening them, but their inhabitants as well. This new experiential possibility may have profound implications for the ways in which the relations between 'body', 'self', and 'world' are configured, both on the level of cultural discourses and practices and on the level of individual experiences. The contributions to this volume investigate the body within as an historical, social and cultural construct, constituted in the interchange between technology, knowledge, representation and media. Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 3

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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Renee van de Vall 1. Leonardo and female interiority, Robert Zwijnenberg 2. Animals inside: anatomy, interiority and virtue in the early modern Dutch Republic, Rina Knoeff 3. Depicting skin: microscopy and the visual articulation of skin interior 1820-1850, Mieneke te Hennepe 4. The mind at work: the visual representation of cerebral processes, Michael Hagner 5. A penny for your thoughts: brain-scans and the mediation of subjective embodiment, Renee van de Vall 6. Transparent bodies: revealing the myth of interiority, Jenny Slatman 7. Looking for a sponge: how a body learns to be affected by ultrasound, Maud Radstake 8. Imagin(in)g pregnancy in Northwest Tanzania: networks, experiences, and translations, Babette Muller-Rockstroh 9. Mediated memories as amalgamations of mind, matter, and culture, Jose van Dijck 10. Intertwined identities, Gail Weiss 11. Framing interiority: portraits in the age of genomics, Miriam van Rijsingen Bibliography Index

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