Visual Translations： Medicine, Art, China and the West

作     者：Corinna Wagner 

作者机构：Department of English College of Humanities University of Exeter Queen's BuildingExeter EX4 4QH UK 

出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第8卷第2期

页      码：193-234页

摘      要：In the history of medicine, relatively little attention has been paid to the way medical illustration circulated globally---or to the issues raised by the cultural ＂translation＂ of such images. My goal here is to flesh out some of the history of this circulation and translation by exploring the aesthetic and medical connections be- tween two specific anatomical collections, both housed at the Gordon Pathology Museum at Guy＇s Hospital, London. The Joseph Towne collection of anatomical waxes and the Lam Qua paintings of the patients of medical missionary Peter Parker were both produced in the nineteenth century. Significantly, the two collections were part of related but culturally specific shifts in the way bodies （and diseased bodies） were viewed, represented, understood and treated. I explore some of the convergences and divergences between Western and Chinese medical and artistic priorities and will address some of the issues raised by them. These two collections are important, I argue, because they demonstrate how aesthetic considerations shape medical knowledge and wider attitudes about the human body.

主 题 词：History of medicine Chinese medicine Art Aesthetics Anatomy Visuality Pathology Medical illustration Medical humanities Body studies 

学科分类：0710[理学-生物科学类] 0502[文学-外国语言文学类] 050201[050201] 05[文学] 07[理学] 071003[071003] 

D　O　I：10.1007/s40647-015-0072-0

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