The face of medicine : visualising medical masculinities in late nineteenth-century Paris
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The face of medicine : visualising medical masculinities in late nineteenth-century Paris
（Rethinking art's histories）
Manchester University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index
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This book examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late-nineteenth-century France. It sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery. By examining previously unstudied sources that traverse disciplinary boundaries, this original study rethinks the politics of medical representations and their social impact. Through a focused examination of paintings from the 1886 and 1887 Paris Salons that portray famous men from the medical and scientific elite – Louis Pasteur, Jules-Émile Péan and Jean-Martin Charcot – along with the images and objects that these men made for personal and occupational purposes, Hunter argues that artworks and medical collections played a key role in forming the public face of scientific medicine. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The makings of a scientific hero: portraits of Louis Pasteur
2 The sleep of reason: Dr Jules Émile Péan’s collection of bodies in wax and in paint
3 Hysterical realisms at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière
Conclusion
Index -- .
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