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9789004176218

Body Within

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  • ISBN13:

    9789004176218

  • ISBN10:

    9004176217

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-08-15
  • Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
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Summary

The central question of this interdisciplinary volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the historical and cultural construction and experience of bodily interiority.

Author Biography

Rene 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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
List of Contributorsp. xi
Acknowledgementsp. xv
Introduction: The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualizationp. 1
Leonardo and Female Interiorityp. 15
Animals Inside: Anatomy, Interiority and Virtue in the Early Modern Dutch Republicp. 31
Depicting Skin: Microscopy and the Visual Articulation of Skin Interior 1820-1850p. 51
The Mind at Work: The Visual Representation of Cerebral Processesp. 67
A Penny for your Thoughts: Brain-Scans and the Mediation of Subjective Embodimentp. 91
Transparent Bodies: Revealing the Myth of Interiorityp. 107
Looking for a Sponge: How a Body Learns to be Affected by Ultrasoundp. 123
Imagin(in)g Pregnancy in Northwest Tanzania: Networks, Experiences, and Translationsp. 139
Mediated Memories as Amalgamations of Mind, Matter, and Culturep. 157
Intertwined Identitiesp. 173
Framing Interiority: Portraits in the Age of Genomicsp. 187
Bibliographyp. 207
Indexp. 219
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