Anatomy's Photography: Objectivity, Showmanship and the Reinvention of the Anatomical Image, 1860-1950
3:30pm - 5:00pm /
Wednesday 26th April 2017
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Dr Roland Clark
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and member of the public.
- Admission: Admission is free, please contact Roland Clark to register: clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk
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Part of the History Department's speaker series, this talk discusses the variety of ways that specialists and non-specialists used anatomical images over a 90 year period.
The series explores how texts and artefacts work as systems of signification and how they were produced, used, interpreted, and circulated within specific historical, political, religious, scientific, social, and legal contexts. Michael Sappol is a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He is the author of 'A Traffic in Dead Bodies': Anatomical Dissection and Embodied Social Identity in 19th Century America (Princeton UP, 2002) and Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration and the Homuncular Subject (Minnesota UP, 2017).
A temporary exhibition of rare historic anatomical guides will be on display at the LMI to accompany the talk.
The series explores how texts and artefacts work as systems of signification and how they were produced, used, interpreted, and circulated within specific historical, political, religious, scientific, social, and legal contexts. Michael Sappol is a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He is the author of 'A Traffic in Dead Bodies': Anatomical Dissection and Embodied Social Identity in 19th Century America (Princeton UP, 2002) and Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration and the Homuncular Subject (Minnesota UP, 2017).
A temporary exhibition of rare historic anatomical guides will be on display at the LMI to accompany the talk.