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The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination by Julie Anderson (Author), Emm Barnes (Author), Emma Shackleton (Author). Since historic times people have depended on medical practitioners to reinforce life, to treat illness and accidents, and to help scale back ache and suffering. The scientifically based self-discipline that we all know at present stands beside numerous traditions, belief systems, and bodies of medical data which have evolved in fascinating ways across cultures and continents. All through this history, successive generations have created inventive representations of these diverse features of drugs, illustrating instruction manuals, documenting treatments, and creating works of art that enable people to express their emotions and ideas about medication, health, and illness. From ancient wall paintings and tomb carvings to sculpture, installations, and digitally created artworks, the outcomes are extraordinary and pay tribute to how drugs has affected our lives and the lives of our ancestors.

Drawing on the outstanding holdings of the Wellcome Assortment in London, The Art of Medicine presents a singular gallery of hardly ever seen work, artifacts, drawings, prints, and extracts from manuscripts and manuals to offer an interesting visible insight into our data of the human physique and mind, and the way each have been handled with medicine. Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton take readers on a fascinating visible journey by means of the historical past of medical practice, exploring up to date biomedical images, standard art, and caricature alongside venerable Chinese scrolls, prehistoric Mesoamerican drawings, paintings of the European Renaissance, medieval Persian manuscripts, and more. The result's a rare and memorable visible account of what it was and is to be human in illness and health.

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The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

 Julie Anderson (Author), Emm Barnes (Author), Emma Shackleton (Author)

256 pages

University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2012)

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