Monstrous Anatomies

Author : Raul Calzoni,Greta Perletti
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783847004691

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Monstrous Anatomies by Raul Calzoni,Greta Perletti Pdf

The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late 18th-Century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.

Author : Carlyn Beccia
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512449167

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Monstrous by Carlyn Beccia Pdf

Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body? Why should vampires drink from veins and not arteries? What body parts are best for zombies to eat? (It's not brains.) This fascinating encyclopedia of monsters delves into the history and science behind eight legendary creatures, from Bigfoot and the kraken to zombies and more. Find out each monster's origin story and the real-world history that informed it, and then explore the science of each creature in fun and surprising ways. Tips and infographics--including monster anatomy, how to survive a vampire attack, and real-life giant creatures of the deep sea--make this a highly visual and fun-to-browse book.

Author : Maaike Bleeker
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789053565162

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Anatomy Live by Maaike Bleeker Pdf

Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson—the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties—hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre, a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head—using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like Body Worlds and The Visible Human Project and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, Anatomy Live is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

Author : Donald E. Morse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443806619

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Anatomy of Science Fiction by Donald E. Morse Pdf

"This wide-ranging collection of essays re-opens the connection between science fiction and the increasingly science-fictional world. Kevin Alexander Boon reminds us of the degree to which the epistemology of science fiction infects modern political discourse. Károly Pintér explores the narrative structures of utopian estrangement, and Tamás Bényei and Brian Attebery take us deeper into the cultural exchanges between science fiction and the literary and political worlds. In the second half, Donald Morse, Nicholas Ruddick and Éva Federmayer look at the way in which science fiction has tackled major ethical issues, while Amy Novak and Kálmán Matolcsy consider memory and evolution as cultural batteries. The book ends with important discussions of East German and Hungarian science fiction by Usch Kiausch and Donald Morse respectively. I envisage that the book will find a market both among academics and as a recommended text to undergraduates as it offers interesting essays on important readers. The tendency for science fiction to be offered as a literature class to science majors is not usually considered, but this book would be particularly appropriate for such a market." Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

Author : Allan Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Diseases
ISBN : OXFORD:591035941

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Pathologica Indica; Or, The Anatomy of Indian Diseases by Allan Webb Pdf

Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351402132

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Medicine, Health and Being Human by Lesa Scholl Pdf

Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines, this volume holds that incremental historical and cultural influences have brought about an understanding of humanity in which the medical is ingrained, consciously or unconsciously, usually as a mode of legitimisation. Divided into three parts, the book follows a narrative path from the integrity of the human soul, through to the integrity of the material human body, then finally brought together through engaging with end-of-life responses. Part 1 examines the move from spirituality to psychiatry in terms of the way medical science has influenced cultural understandings of the mind. Part 2 interrogates the role that medicine has played in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in constructing and deconstructing the self and other, including the fusion of visual objectivity and the scientific gaze in constructing perceptions of humanity. Part 3 looks at the limits of medicine when the integrity of one body breaks down. It contends with the ultimate question of the extent to which humanity is confined within the integrity of the human body, and how medicine and the humanities work together toward responding to the finality of death. This is a valuable contribution for all those interested in the medical humanities, history of medicine, history of ideas and the social approaches to health and illness.

Author : Marieke M.A. Hendriksen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004262775

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Elegant Anatomy by Marieke M.A. Hendriksen Pdf

In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. Starting from the materiality of preparations, it introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis.

Author : Anna Gasperini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030109165

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Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy by Anna Gasperini Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching dissection to medical students, deeply affecting the Victorian poor. The ensuing decade, such famous penny bloods as Manuscripts from the Diary of a Physician, Varney the Vampyre, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London addressed issues of medical ethics, social power, and bodily agency. Challenging traditional views of penny bloods as a lowlier, un-readable genre, this book rereads these four narratives in the light of the 1832 Anatomy Act, putting them in dialogue with different popular artistic forms and literary genres, as well as with the spaces of death and dissection in Victorian London, exploring their role as channels for circulating discourses about anatomy and ethics among the Victorian poor.

Author : Brian Muñoz,Matthew Landers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320920

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Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850 by Brian Muñoz,Matthew Landers Pdf

Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture.

Author : Ian McCormick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sex
ISBN : 0415201470

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Sexual Outcasts, 1750-1850: Sexual anatomies by Ian McCormick Pdf

Sexual Outcasts presents a wide range of texts selected to illustrate the diversity of responses to the concealed body and to the secret or forbidden sexual practices of 1750-1850. Each volume follows the means by which prohibitions and taboos were produced and circulated. The reader can therefore explore the processes that disciplined the representation of the body and the constuction of sexual outcasts.This four-volume set presents a wide range of textual material: criminal reports; scientific and medical publications; newspaper items; sex manuals; guidebooks; speculative accounts, and case histories. The variety of sources permits a multiple perspective on the body, sexual drives, gendered psychologies and perverse behaviour across the century.

Author : Sir Everard Home
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
ISBN : NYPL:33433010834475

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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Sir Everard Home Pdf

Author : Mike Mattesi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781315295527

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FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy by Mike Mattesi Pdf

The newest book in Michael Mattesi’s Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy, explores the different facets of motion and the human body. As opposed to the memorization technique, Mattesi stresses the function of each body part and how gravity relative to different poses affects the aesthetics and form of muscle. The chapters are divided by the different parts of the body, thus allowing the reader to concentrate on mastery one body part at a time. Color coded images detail each muscle and their different angles. Special consideration is given to anatomy for animation, allowing the reader to create a character that is anatomically accurate in both stillness and motion. Key Features Detailed visual instruction includes colourful, step-by-step diagrams that allow you to easily follow the construction of an anatomically correct figure. Clearly organized and color coded per regions of the body's anatomy, a clarity of design for better reader understanding. Learn how anatomy is drawn and defined by the function of a pose. Visit the companion website for drawing demonstrations and further resources on anatomy.

Author : Heike Klippel,Bettina Wahrig,Anke Zechner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319649092

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Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema by Heike Klippel,Bettina Wahrig,Anke Zechner Pdf

This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, literature, and especially film—the medium of the visible—explain and show what is hidden? How can we deal with uncertainties emerging from the ambivalence of dangerous substances? These considerations lead the editors of this volume to the notion of “precarious identities” as a key discursive marker of poisons and related substances. This book is unique in facilitating a multi-faceted conversation between disciplines. It draws on examples from historical cases of poisoning; figurations of uncertainty and blurred boundaries in literature; and cinematic examples, from early cinema and arthouse to documentary and blockbuster. The contributions work with concepts from gender studies, new materialism, post-colonialism, deconstructivism, motif studies, and discourse analysis.

Author : Sir Everard Home
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
ISBN : KBNL:KBNLB410111017

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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, in which are Explained the Preparations in the Hunterian Collection, Illustr. by Engravings by Sir Everard Home Pdf

Author : Ramsey Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945263997

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The Anatomy of Monsters by Ramsey Campbell Pdf

Monsters, creatures, and demons once plagued the world. Some still do. Many stories of their origin have been lost. Until now when the most decadent minds discovered new origins to creatures that have haunted us through the ages. Their words face off with horror itself ... Gather around as Ramsey Campbell, Gary McMahon, Josh Malerman, and Brian Hodge, along with 15 more of some of horrors best authors present their takes on the anatomy of monsters.