[Describe and convince: visual rhetoric of cinematography in medicine].
The tools of visualisation occupy a central place in medicine. Far from being simple accessories of glance, they literally constitute objects of medicine. Such empirical acknowledgement and epistemological position open a vast field of investigation: visual technologies of medical knowledge. This article studies the development and transformation of medical objects which have permitted to assess the role of temporality in the epistemology of medicine. It firstly examines the general problem of the relationships between cinema, animated image and medicine and secondly, the contribution of the German doctor Martin Weiser to medical cinematography as a method. Finally, a typology is sketched out organising the variety of the visual technology of movement under the perspective of the development of specific visual techniques in medicine.
Institut universitaire d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique, CHUV et Faculté de biologie et de médecine, 1, chemin des Falaises, CH-1005 Lausanne. Francesco.Panese@unil.ch
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