Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850

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Editors: Matthew Landers and Brian Muñoz

The Body, Gender and Culture

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. The contributors argue that the study of anatomy directly influenced the way in which emerging disciplines of study were organized.

Readership

History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy, Politics and Gender Studies

Contents

Introduction – Matthew Landers
Part I: Body as an Organizational Metaphor
1 Early Modern Dissection and a Physical Model of Organization – Matthew Landers
2 'Who Will Not Force a Mad Man to be Let Blood?' Circulation and Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century – Amy Witherbee
3 Earth's Intelligent Body: Subterranean Systems and the Circulation of Knowledge, Or, The Radius Subtending Circumnavigation – Kevin L Cope
Part II: Anatomy, Materialism and Embodiments
4 Visualizing Monsters: Anatomy as a Regulatory System – Touba Ghadessi
5 Forms of Materialist Embodiment – Charles T Wolfe
6 Newtonian Anatomy: System and Display for William Cowper and Richard Mead – Craig Ashley Hanson
7 Visualizing the Fibre-Woven Body: Nehemiah Grew's Plant Anatomy and the Emergence of the Fibre Body – Hisao Ishizuka
8 Public and Private Regular Bodies and their Souls: Materialism and Mortalism in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes – Ionut Untea
Part III: Artistic and Literary Representations
9 Mirroring, Anatomy, Transparency: The Collective Body and the Co-opted Individual in Spencer, Hobbes and Bunyan – Nick Davis
10 'After an Unwonted Manner': Anatomy and Poetical Organization in Early Modern England – Mauro Spicci
11 Possessing the Body: Anatomy and Cartography in the Elizabethan Discourse – Laura Tommaso
12 Art and Medicine: Creative Complicity between Artistic Representation and Research – Filippo Pierpaolo Marino
13 The Internal Environment: Claude Bernard's Concept and its Representation in Fantastic Voyage – Jérôme Goffette and Jonathan Simon
Conclusion – Brian Muñoz

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