Malleable Anatomies : Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Malleable Anatomies : Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy / Lucia Dacome.

An account of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy, showing how anatomical models became an authoritative source of medical knowledge, but also informed social, cultural, and political developments at the crossroads of medical learning, religious ritual, antiquarian a...

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Main Author: Dacome, Lucia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2017.
Series:Past & present book series.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Wax-modeling.
Anatomy > 18th century.
Medicine > History.
history of medicine.
MEDICAL > Anatomy.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Medicine
Anatomy
Wax-modeling
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; BEGINNINGS; LIFELIKE MATTERS; THE CENTURY OF THINGS; BETWEEN PATRONAGE AND COMMERCE; TOURING AND VIEWING; ANATOMICAL CELEBRITIES; ENTANGLED LIVES; THE OUTLINE; 1: Prospero's Tools; 'MAGNUS IN FOLIO, PARVUS IN SOLIO'; NEW POPE AND NOVEL PATRON; THE BODY OF THE CHURCH; THE ANATOMY OF THE POPE; MODELLING SANCTITY; ANATOMY AND THE BORDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD; BOLOGNA AND ROME.
  • POWERFUL THINGS2: Artificer and Connoisseur; 'LABORIOUS MERE ANATOMICAL BUSINESS'; LELLI AND THE HARQUEBUS LINCHPIN; AN ANATOMY ROOM AT THE INSTITUTE OF THE SCIENCES; MAKING MODELS; WAX WARS; DANCING AND DISSECTING; 'THE GREATEST ANATOMIST IN EUROPE'; BODIES, MODELS, AND STATUES; THE STRIPPING OF THE STATUES; LEARNING TO LOOK; 3: Anatomy, Embroidery, and the Fabric of Celebrity; SPREADING THE NEWS; UN/ORDINARY HOUSEHOLDS; ANATOMICAL HOMES; MODELLING AND MOTHERING; ANATOMY LIKE EMBROIDERY; THE BEAUTY OF ANATOMY; ANATOMISTS, NOT CHARLATANS; ARTISTS AND ANATOMISTS.
  • WITH A 'LEARNED AND BEAUTIFUL HAND'WIGS, COLLARS, AND 'DESPERATE PHYSIOGNOMIES'; 4: Women, Wax, and Anatomy; THE FLUID WORLD OF WAX; PLEADING WITH THE POPE; FRIVOLOUS MINDS AND FUTILE THINGS; VISIONS AND THE NATURE OF THE IMAGINATION; HEATING UP PEOPLE'S HEADS; POLICING DEVOTION; WAXWORKS AND THE INVISIBLE HAND; IMPRESSING THE SENSES; KEEPING THINGS SEPARATE; IN THE PROXIMITY OF KNOWLEDGE; BOLOGNA'S WAX CULTURES; WAX EFFIGIES; 5: Blindfolding the Midwives; ANATOMY AND MIDWIFERY; 'TIRELESS STUDIES, AFFABLE MANNERS'; SENSING CHILDBIRTH; BLINDING KNOWLEDGE; MODELLING MATERNITY.
  • A PORTELLA AT THE INSTITUTE OF THE SCIENCESMODELS, TRAINING, AND LICENSING; RELIGIOUS LICENSING; TRANSLATING GESTURAL KNOWLEDGE; 6: Transferring Value; VALUABLE MATTERS; ENTERING THE BOOKISH WORLD OF ANATOMY; IN A STATE OF EXTREME NEED; MEDICAL ENTERPRISES; THE SALT OF THE LION; TRANSFERABLE SKILLS; PORTRAYING CELEBRITY; CELEBRITY AND MODESTY; 7: Injecting Knowledge; GIUSEPPE GOES TO NAPLES; A SKELETON AT THE NEAPOLITAN COURT; THE LURE OF THE VOLCANO; ONE OF THE MOST PERFECT PHILOSOPHERS; THE MAKING OF A COURTIER SAVANT; 'A SECOND WORLD FROM THE FIRST'; THICKENING BLOOD; 'THE CITY OF BLOODS'
  • REGENERATIONJUGGLER OR PHILOSOPHER; THE NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL; Epilogue: Becoming Obsolete; Select Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; Manuscript Sources: Archives and Libraries; Printed Primary Sources; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.

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