Dr Emm Barnes, Dr Julie Anderson and Emma Shackleton
For thousands of years artists have played a special role in the human quest to understand anatomy, health and disease; this book celebrates their creativity and inquisitiveness using little-seen, stunning imagery from one of the world's greatest collections.
The Wellcome Collection is based on the enormous
bequest left by pioneering pharmacist Sir Henry
Wellcome (1853-1936). For many years, he travelled
the globe, acquiring any kind of art or artefact with a
bearing on health and medical treatment: the resulting
collection everything from oil paintings, to dentures,
scrolls, glass eyes and illuminated books numbers
over a million pieces, and forms a unique history of
humankind's growing understanding of ourselves
and our world.
Using a wealth of previously unseen images from
the collection, and telling the fascinating story of
medical understanding worldwide, The Art of Medicine celebrates both medical advance and visual artistry
£30.00
Buy From AmazonPublished: Nov, 2011
The authors expertly display and explain sculptures, carvings and myriad other artifacts to provide a comprehensive visual history of the medical tradition across cultures. - ScienceNews
Exuberant, certainly, and gorgeous too - one can lose oneself in these full-colour, beautifully lit, generously sized illustrations - but also gasp-inducing and occasionally grim. Medical texts or devices are read against the grain for their aesthetic qualities, so that the reader is encouraged to draw out unexpected and delightful connections between, for example, 17th-century Persian anatomical charts and digital-age representations of the influenza virus. - The Lancet
- 256 pages
- h 304mm x w 304mm
- hardback with jacket
- full colour throughout, 400 images
- 77,500 words
- Printed ISBN:978-1-907579-13-4
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