Facets

1904 CE

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

2014 CE

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

1928 CE

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

2006 CE

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

1967 CE–1972 CE

#461.2

Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.

A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…

1852 CE

#440

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2007 CE

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2004 CE

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2000 CE

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1953 CE

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…

1996 CE

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2009 CE

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…