The Educated Eye

by Anderson, Nancy; Dietrich, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9781611680447
• ISBN10: 1611680441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-10
• Publisher: Dartmouth College

Summary

The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye explores 19th and 20th century cases of visual models, including demonstration halls and simulations of surgery in virtual reality. From essays on Doc Edgerton's stroboscopic techniques, to the Eames's visualization of scale in Powers of Ten, among others, contributors ask how we are taught to see the unseen.

Author Biography

Nancy Anderson is an assistant professor of visual studies at the University of Buffalo. Michael R. Dietrich is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Visual Lessons and the Life Sciences	p. 1
Trained Judgment, Intervention, and the Biological Gaze: How Charles Sedgwick Minot Saw Senescence	p. 14
Facing Animals in the Laboratory: Lessons of Nineteenth Century Medical School Microscopy Manuals	p. 44
Photography and Medical Observation	p. 68
Cinematography without Film: Architectures and Technologies of Visual Instruction in Biology around 1900	p. 94
Cinema as Universal Language of Health Education: Translating Science in Unhooking the Hookworm (1920)	p. 121
Screening Science: Pedagogy and Practice in William Dieterle's Film Biographies of Scientists	p. 141
Optical Constancy, Discontinuity, and Nondiscontinuity in the Eameses' Rough Sketch	p. 162
Educating the High-Speed Eye: Harold E. Edgerton' Early Visual Conventions	p. 186
On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of Developmental Biology	p. 213
Form and Function: A Semiotic Analysis of Figures in Biology Textbooks
Neuroimages, Pedagogy, and Society	p. 255
The Anatomy of a Surgical Simulation: The Mutual Articulation of Bodies in and through the Machine	p. 277
Contributors	p. 311
Index	p. 315
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