Anna Maerker

Model experts

Wax anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097393
• ISBN-10: 0719097398
• Artikelnr.: 42376003

Autorenporträt

Anna Maerker is Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and plates Acknowledgments List of abbreviations
Introduction: Model practices and expertise in state service Part I:
Politics of nature and politics of the body 1. 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
practice 3. Accuracy and authority in model production 4. Model reception
and the display of expertise Part III: Changing model contexts and
interpretations 5. The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in
Vienna 6 Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814 Conclusion
Bibliography