Practices of looking and the medical humanities: imagining the unborn in France, 1550-1800.
Visuality is a concept used to study vision as an historically and culturally specific activity. Curriculum in the medical humanities could address visuality by stressing how different kinds of practitioners and peoples learn how to see. This paper introduces the visual training promoted by the discipline of art history, analysing early modern French medical images of the unborn as a case study. The goal is to encourage medical practitioners to reflect on their own visual skills, comparing and contrasting them with the visual methodologies of art history.
McTavish
Lianne
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History of Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Alberta, 3-98 Fine Arts Building, Alberta, Canada. lmctavis@ualberta.ca
D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005333:Fetus; D005602:France; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration / Q000266:history*; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000266:history*