The Body Within

Art, Medicine and Visualization
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17621-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 176/3, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zwijnenberg, Robert P.

Vall, Renée van de

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Renée 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, Renée 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 Müller-Rockstroh
9. Mediated memories as amalgamations of mind, matter, and culture, José van Dijck
10. Intertwined identities, Gail Weiss
11. Framing interiority: portraits in the age of genomics, Miriam van Rijsingen

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Renée van de Vall, PhD (1992) Philosophy, Amsterdam University, is associate professor of media culture at the University of Maastricht. She has published on philosophy of art, spectatorship and contemporary visual culture, including At the Edges of Vision (2008).

Robert Zwijnenberg, PhD (1995) Philosophy, Amsterdam University, is professor of art history at Leiden University. He publishes on philosophy of art, and on the relation between the arts and sciences, including The Writings and Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (1999).