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Biomedical Visions
Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice
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Images of the body in art and science We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare...
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Images of the body in art and science
We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualised bodies and ideological notions of health and disease.
This publication brings together perspectives from art history, visual science studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology to encounter watercolours, sculpture, comics, advertising, and infographics. Images are a primary way of recognising the body, but they inevitably promise too much and disappoint us in our quest for bodily self-control.
The collection brings together epistemology, medicine and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and in the future.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783775760850
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 October 2025
Country: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Illustration: 50
Contributors:
- Edited by Alfred Freeborn
- Designed by Thomas Spallek
- Edited by Elizabeth Huges
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 368
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About the Author
Includes texts by Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, Laura Valterio, Jacob van der Beugel, Lara Keuck, Jaipreet Virdi, Nimisha Bhanot, Paula Muhr, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Stephen A. Geller, Gideon Manning, Flora Lysen, Marlene Bart, Cornelius Borck, Robert Meunier, Adam Christianson, Ariane Hanemaayer, Jan M. Friedman, Alison Elliott, Awa Naghipour, Joana Atemengue Owona, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Cat Dawson.
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