Visualizing reproduction: a cultural history of early-modern and modern medical illustrations.
Written as a response to a conference exhibition of medical illustrations of reproduction, this article considers the gains of an interdisciplinary study of medical illustration to both historians and medics. The article insists that we should not only be attuned to the cultural work that such representations perform but also that such illustrations are the product of material medical practices and the often humane impulses that drive them.
Harvey
Karen
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Department of History, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. K.harvey@sheffield.ac.uk
D005260:Female; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration / Q000266:history*; D011057:Politics; D012098:Reproduction; D014930:Women / Q000266:history*