Wound Man (eBook)

The Many Lives of a Surgical Image

Jack Hartnell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
463 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691274454 (ISBN)

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A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagramThe Wound Mana medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseaseswas reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In this panoramic book, Jack Hartnell charts the emergence and endurance of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments. Taking readers on a remarkable journey from medieval Europe to eighteenth-century Japan, Hartnell explains the historic popularity of this gruesome image and why the Wound Man continues to intrigue us today.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Hartnell traces the many lives of the Wound Man, from its origins in late medieval Bohemia to its vivid reincarnations in hundreds of manuscripts and printed books over more than three hundred years. Transporting readers beyond the specifics of bodily injury, Hartnell demonstrates how the Wound Man's body was at once an encyclopedic repository of surgical knowledge, a fantastic literary and religious muse, a catalyst for shifting media landscapes, and a cross-cultural artistic feat that reached diverse audiences around the world. The Wound Man, we discover, held profound importance not only for healers and patients but also for scribes, students, nuns, monks, printmakers, and poets.Marvelously illustrated, Wound Man sheds light on the entwined histories of art and medicine, showing how premodern medical diagrams represent a unique site of contact between sickness, cure, painting, and print.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 192 color + 3 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: academic • Aesthetic • AGEs • anatomical • apothecaries • Artist • Authors • bayerische • Bayerische Staatsbibliothek • biblioteca • Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana • Bibliothek • bibliothèque • Bibliothèque Nationale • Blood • bloodletting • Bloodletting figures • Bodies • Bodily • Booklet • books • BRUNSCHWIG • Buch der • Central • Century • Certaine workes • Ceské republiky • Christ • Christianity • Classical • complete • Cure • der • diagram • Diagrammatic • Disease • drawing • Dreibilderserie • Dreibilderserie manuscripts • Dutch • Earliest • Early modern • Edition • Elements • entire • ET • Fasciculus • Fasciculus medicinae • Feldtbuch • Fifteenth • Figures • Final • folio • Fourteenth • GALE • GeKA • Geka soden • Gersdorff • Gersdorff feldtbuch • geschichte der • Giovanni • Gregoris • Gundolf Keil • Hieronymus Brunschwig • Historical • History • Ideas • Imagery • images • Information • Injuries • Ink paint • instance • instruments • Japanese • Jean • Johann • Johannes • Karl Sudhoff • Knihovna ceské • Knihovna ceské republiky • Knowledge • Latin • makers • Manuscript • Manuscripts • Material • Medical • Medical Images • Medicinae • Medicine • medics • Medieval • Medieval medical • Middle Ages • Modern • Národní knihovna • Národní knihovna ceské • narrative • Nationale • objects • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek • Page • painting • pair • Paré • Patient • Peter • Phlebotomical • Physician • Poetry • Popular • Practitioners • Presence • Print • printer • printing • Prüss • Range • Reader • Religious • Renaissance • Saint • Science & Technology • significant • sixteenth • Speaking lands • Staatsbibliothek • Strassburg johann • Sudhoff • surgeon • Surgery • surgical • Tagault • technical • texts • Thomas • title • Tools • Tradition • Translation • treatise • treatises • Treatment • und • Universitätsbibliothek • Vatican • Vaticana ms • Vaticana ms pal • Venetian • Violence • Visual • von • Weapons • Wound • wound healing • Writings • Wundarznei
• ISBN-13: 9780691274454 / 9780691274454