Publication : “Bodies Beyond Borders : Moving Anatomies, 1750–1950”.

WILS Kaart (dirs.), DE BONT Raf (dirs.) et AU Sokhieng (dirs.), Bodies Beyond Borders : Moving Anatomies, 1750–1950, Louvain, Leuven University Press, 2017, 304 p.
Présentation de l’éditeur :
The human body in scientific and artistic representations around 1800 anatomy as a discipline rose to scientific prominence as it undergirded the Paris-centred clinical revolution in medicine. Although classical anatomy gradually lost ground in the following centuries in favor of new disciplines based on microscopic analysis, general anatomy nevertheless remained pivotal in the teaching of medicine. Corpses, anatomical preparations, models, and drawings were used more intensively than ever before. Moreover, anatomy received new forms of public visibility. Through public exhibitions and lectures in museums and fairgrounds, anatomy became part of general education and secured a place in popular imagination. As such, the anatomical body developed into a production site for racial, gender, and class identities. Both within the medical and the public sphere, art and science continued to be closely intertwined in anatomical representations of the body.
Bodies Beyond Borders analyzes the notion of circulation in anatomy. Following anatomy through different locations and cultural domains permits a deeper understanding of its history and its changing place in society. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of circulating ideas and objects, ranging from models and body parts to illustrations and texts. Together, the essays enable rethinking the relations between metropolis and colony, university and fairground, and scientific and artistic representations of the human body.
Contributors : Sokhieng Au (KU Leuven), Margaret Carlyle (University of Minnesota), Tinne Claes (KU Leuven), Veronique Deblon (KU Leuven), Raf de Bont (Maastricht University), Stephen C. Kenny (University of Liverpool), Helen MacDonald (University of Melbourne), Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (University of Essex), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University), Naomi Slipp (Auburn University-Montgomery), Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven).
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Maxime Georges Métraux (27 février 2017). Publication : “Bodies Beyond Borders : Moving Anatomies, 1750–1950”. Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 22 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p6cw