[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 08 April 2024 at 5:30pm

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School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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Visualizing the Body with Text and Image: The Early Modern Grammar of Anatomical Illustration
Gideon Manning (Cedar-Sinai Medical Centre)

Dates: Monday, 8 April 2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 3, Room 344
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: The first anatomical images in printed books were the result of a now well-known negotiation between art, enterprise, and the study of nature. There have been many valuable contributions made to our understanding of these images—their genesis and function—by historians of science, historians of the book, and historians of art and visual culture. In this presentation, however, I will reflect on anatomical images with the history of medicine specifically in mind. I will argue that the early modern anatomist’s threefold distinction among historia-actio-usus served as the initial grammar of anatomical illustration. Examining the formal, investigative procedures of anatomists in the early modern period, at the precise moment when anatomical images became a standard feature of medical textbooks and works of natural philosophy, I will detail how the histo-ria-actio-usus distinction helps us understand the existence of divergent images, competing agendas, and disputes over accuracy. Case studies will come from early modern and later editions of Galen, Harvey, and Descartes, focusing on the mechanical body, as well as several more recent and non-Euro-Western anatomical illustrations.


Bio: Gideon Manning is Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, where he directs the Program in the History of Medicine.  initially trained as a philosopher, and later as an historian of science and medicine, Gideon’s research focuses especially on the emergence of a mechanical conception of nature and the human body.  He is the author more than two dozen articles and book chapters and the editor or co-editor of four books, most recently, “Women and the Life Sciences” and The Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar with Anne Marie Roos. Gideon is currently writing a monograph about the history of the good death and several papers related to the history of surgery.



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