The apotheosis of the dissected plate: spectacles of layering & transparency in the 19th and 20th century anatomy : traversing the text/body binary for profit & pleasure

The apotheosis of the dissected plate: spectacles of layering & transparency in the 19th and 20th century anatomy : traversing the text/body binary for profit & pleasure

Series Title(s):
History of Medicine seminar
Author(s):
Sappol, Michael, author
Contributor(s):
National Library of Medicine (U.S.). History of Medicine Division, sponsoring body.
Publication:
[Bethesda, Md.] : [National Institutes of Health, History of Medicine Division], 2015
Language(s):
English
Format:
Moving image
Subject(s):
Anatomy, Cross-Sectional -- history
Dissection -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Medical Illustration -- history
Genre(s):
Lecture
Abstract:
Dr. Sappol delivers a lecture about "topographical anatomy"--a tradition of slicing and sawing rather than cutting and carving--and its procedures for converting bodies from three dimensions to two dimensions and back again. In topographical cross-section anatomy, the frozen or mummified body is cut into successive layers that are then transcribed and reproduced as pages of a book or a sequence of prints or slides (sometimes with the original slices preserved as a sequence of specimens for the anatomical museum). The topographical method influenced, and was in turn influenced by, flap anatomy (the technique of cutting out printed anatomical parts on paper or cardboard and assembling the parts into a layered representation of the human body). In the 20th century, medical illustrators and publishers developed a new technique of three-dimensional anatomical layering: the anatomical transparency--an epistemological/heuristic device which in the postmodern era has come to enchant artists as well as anatomists. This talk features photographs of materials in the NLM collection by artist Mark Kessell.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
054 min.
Color:
Color
Sound:
Sound
Technique:
Live action
NLM Unique ID:
101654102 (See catalog record)
OCLC no.:
927947905
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101654102