Model Experts - Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 17751815

Informationen zum Autor Anna Maerker is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. It reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. Zusammenfassung Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. It reveals the human relationships! controversies! and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and platesAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction: Model practices and expertise in state service Part I: Politics of nature and politics of the body1. The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum 2. Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany Part II: Articulating expertise in everyday practice3. Accuracy and authority in model production 4. Model reception and the display of expertise Part III: Changing model contexts and interpretations5. The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna 6 Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814 ConclusionBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Anna Maerker, Maerker Anna
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9780719097393
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9739-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; austria, SCIENCE / History, Anatomy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Anatomy, ART / Museum Studies, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, C 1700 To C 1800