Making sense of medicine : material culture and the reproduction of medical knowledge

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect Books, 2022 and ©2022

Subject:

Medical education
Material culture

Contributor:

Nott, John (Economic and medical historian), editor
Harris, Anna (Medical anthropologist), editor
Allison, Rachel Vaden, contributor
Lente, Harro van, contributor
Wyatt, Sally, contributor
Sánchez Burmester, Candida F., contributor
Wojcik, Andrea, contributor

ISBN:

9781789385779 and 1789385776

Description:

457 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction: What matters in medical education? / John Nott and Anna Harris -- Designing a discipline: Architecture for pathology in the interwar period / Annmarie Adams -- Objectivity, art and medical images / Sally Wyatt -- Lessons from a balloon / Christine den Harder and Anna Harris -- The geography of the dead and the movement of the living: Kinetic consciousness and the limits of the cadaver / Rachel Prentice -- Anatomy of the chalkboard / Rachel Vaden Allison -- The cigarette paper, the embroiderer, and the gendered craft of vascular surgery / Paul Craddock -- Circulated concepts, images and objects / Harro van Lente -- 'The lady anatomist': fragmented bodies, photographic assemblage and the 'art' of dissection at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1895-98 / Jessica M. Dandona -- 'See for yourself: Autopsy film as audio-visual mediation of learning experiences, c.1928-62 / Christian Bonah and Joël Danet -- 'Now we are going to look at a piece of film': Projecting medicine in twentieth century medical education / Angela Saward -- Groundwork for planetary health: Reimagining gardens in medical education / Stacey Langwick and Mary Mosha -- The context of touch: gloves and pelvic exam / Kelly Underman -- Chinese medical illustrations and Communist materialism, 1950-1966 / Lan Li -- The heart of the simulated matter: Interprofessional training practices of clinical care / Ivana Guarrasi -- Performed with care: Enacting accuracy in medical illustration / Drew Danielle Belsky -- Material images: Flesh on paper in twentieth-century surgical drawing / Harriet Palfreyman -- The Radford Collection: Exploring and experiencing the mid nineteenth-century midwifery lecture / Rebecca Whiteley -- Invisible work / Sally Wyatt -- The virtual microscope: Tracing knowledge through digital images / R. Claire Aland, Nicole Shepherd, Belinda Swyny and Mary-Louise Roy Manchadi -- The pathology museum at Korle Bu / Robert Kumoji and John Nott -- The nurserver / David Theodore -- Typologies of fatness: Constitutional photography in Western medicine, c.1930-60 / Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen -- Matters of place and affect / Rachel Vaden Allison and John Nott -- Props in breaking bad news simulation / Kaisu Koski and Kirsten Ostherr -- Lasers, screens and models: The material assemblages of learning pattern recognition in radiography education / Peter D. Winter -- Simulations in health professions education / Andrea Wojcik -- Medical museums, materiality, and the traumatic brain injury of Phineas Gage / Denielle Elliott with Dominic Hall -- This thing, a stethoscope / Claire Wendland -- Materialities of surgery: Learning through thread / Roger Kneebone and Fleur Oakes -- Developing ultrasound: Knowledge dissemination and technological change, 1945-1980 / Jakob Lehne -- The fake wound: Thinking through materials in OSCE simulations / Andrea Wojcik, Victor Mogre, Anthony Amalba, Celia Yamile Rodriguez and Francis A. Abantanga -- Zebras, not horses: On limits and margins of biomedical knowledge / Candida F. Sánchez Burmester --

Summary:

"A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and reproduction of medical knowledge. Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft. To that end, this edited collection brings together historians, anthropologists, educators artists and curators to explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad temporal focus, international scope, this volume focuses on the materials, objects, tools and technologies that facilitate the reproduction of medical knowledge and often also reify understandings of medical science. Experimental in form and supplemented with ethnographic, museological and historical cases from around the world, Making Sense of Medicine is the first book to fully explore the matter of medical education in the modern world."--book jacket

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

R735.A6 M35 2022

Available

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