Anatomy of the Medical Image

Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.

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Intoduction

 Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller



PART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics

1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons

 Jill Redner

2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

 Axel Fliethmann

3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women

 Elizabeth Stephens

4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal

 Heikki Lempa



PART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation
5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion

 Corinna Wagner

6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture

 Joanna Madloch

7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture

 Carolyn Lau

8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety

 stef lenk



PART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body
9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900

 Claudia Stein

10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic

 Michael Hau

11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination

 Birgit Lang

12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections

 Christiane Weller

13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror

 Barry Murnane



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