Ressources numériques en sciences humaines et sociales OpenEdition Nos plateformes OpenEdition Books OpenEdition Journals Hypothèses Calenda Bibliothèques OpenEdition Freemium Suivez-nous

Publication : “Visualizing Disease : The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations”..

BERTOLONI MELI Domenico, Visualizing Disease : The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and understand. With Visualizing Disease, Domenico Bertoloni Meli explores key questions in this domain, opening a new field of inquiry based on the analysis of a rich body of arresting and intellectually challenging images reproduced here both in black and white and in color.

Starting in the Renaissance, Bertoloni Meli delves into the wide range of figures involved in the early study and representation of disease, including not just men of medicine, like anatomists, physicians, surgeons, and pathologists, but also draftsmen and engravers. Pathological preparations proved difficult to preserve and represent, and as Bertoloni Meli takes us through a number of different cases from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, we gain a new understanding of how knowledge of disease, interactions among medical men and artists, and changes in the technologies of preservation and representation of specimens interacted to slowly bring illustration into the medical world.

Domenico Bertoloni Meli is provost professor of history and philosophy of science and medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table des matières

Introduction: Bodies, Diseases, Images
1  Visualizing Disease in the Early Modern Period
2  ‘Sic nata est anatome pathologica picta’: The Diseases of Bones
3  Preserved Specimens and Comprehensive Treatises
4  Intermezzo: Identifying Disease in Its Inception
5  The Nosology of Cutaneous Diseases
6  Morbid Anatomy in Color
7  Comprehensive Treatises in Color
Concluding Reflections


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Maxime Georges Métraux (15 août 2018). Publication : “Visualizing Disease : The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations”.. Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Moderne. Consulté le 22 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p6r8


Maxime Georges Métraux

Doctorant en Histoire de l'art moderne (Université Paris IV –Sorbonne, Centre André Chastel – UMR 8150). Expert pour la galerie Hubert Duchemin et chargé d’enseignement à l'Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Commissaire scientifique de l’exposition "Chic Emprise : Cultures, usages et sociabilités du tabac du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle" (22 juin - 23 septembre 2019) au musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle.

Vous aimerez aussi...