Medicine and the Five SensesW. F. Bynum, Roy Porter From the days of Hippocratic 'bedside medicine' to the advent of the CAT scanner, doctors have always relied on their senses in diagnosing and treating disease. Medical education, from the apprenticeship, to the rise of the laboratory, has sought to train the senses of students who must act like medical detectives. At the same time, debate since antiquity has pondered the hierarchy of the senses - from noble vision to baser touch and smell. From the rise of medical and, particularly, anatomical illustration in the Renaissance, doctors have been concerned about the relationship between image and reality. This richly-illustrated collection of essays explores many facets of these themes. They range widely over time and space and shed much new light on medical perceptions and the cultural dimensions of the healing arts. |
Contents
Sensory perception and its metaphors in the time of Richard | 17 |
The manifest and the hidden in the Renaissance clinic | 40 |
smell and its significance in medicine from anti | 61 |
contrasting attitudes towards observational | 69 |
looking and learning in some anatomical | 85 |
physiognomy 1780 | 122 |
students teachers and medical rhetoric | 154 |
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abditis rerum causis Agnew anatomy artist auscultation Bartholomeus Anglicus bedside Bestiaire Bibliothèque body Cambridge Cheselden consultations course demonstration diagnosis discussion disease dissection doctor Duncan early Edinburgh eighteenth eighteenth-century essays evidence example experience eyes Fernel Fernelian five senses Fordyce Fournival functions Galen George Fordyce Gross Clinic Gui Patin Henry Cline Hippocrates Hippocratic History of Medicine hospital discourses human Ibid illustrations instruments John Journal knowledge laboratory Laennec lbid lectures letter London manuscript mediate auscultation method Monte Monte's nature nineteenth century notes observation occult organs pain painting Paris patient Patin percussion physical examination physician physiognomy physiology Porter practice practitioner pulse pupils rationalists Renaissance Richard Richard de Fournival Riolan role Roy Porter Royal scene scientific sensory sexuality smell sphygmograph stethoscope surgeon surgery surgical symptoms teaching techniques Thomas Eakins tion tradition Vesalius visual Wellcome Institute Wellcome Institute Library WIHM William Cheselden William Hunter
References to this book
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell Constance Classen,David Howes,Anthony Synnott No preview available - 1994 |