A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php> by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black
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Science & the Arts Symposium: Imaging / Imagining the Skeleton
Friday, April 30 | 1:00 pm | Rms 9206-9207 Imaging / Imagining the Skeleton is a symposium exploring how social conceptions of the human form have evolved alongside the increasing ability of science and medicine to represent the body. Speakers will present a constellation of inter-disciplinary discussions about the relationship between representing/exhibiting the body, evolving [...]
Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci’s Science, Technology, and Art
The Getty Center | Harold M. Williams Auditorium | Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010 | Time: 3:00 p.m. | Admission: Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or “Make Reservation” here. Jonathan Pevsner, professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and scientific consultant to the Discovery Channel’s Doing DaVinci series, explores Leonardo’s wide-ranging [...]
Ann: Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in Twentieth-Century Medicine
Talk by Miriam Posner, Yale University Most medical historians have heard of anatomical museums and displays of anomalies in earlier eras. Few are aware, however, that exhibition has also been a crucial component of twentieth-century medicine. The prominence of exhibition in medicine suggests that historians should refine their notions of how medical ideas are communicated [...]
