Event

Medicine, Art and Visualization in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 15:00to17:30
McIntyre Medical Building 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA

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Please note: This event starts at 3pm and not 5:30pm as stated in the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Reporter.


The Osler Library of the History of Medicine invites you to three presentations on Medicine, Art and Visualization in the Nineteenth Century.

1. Realisms Gone Mad: Hysterical Pictures, Performances and Procedures at the Salpêtrière Hospital
Dr. Mary Hunter, Art History and Communications Studies, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, Montreal

2. Robert Knox and the Anatomy of Ideal Beauty
Dr. Allister Neher, New School, Dawson College, Montreal

3. Dissected Bodies as Books: Illustrated Nineteenth Century Anatomical Atlases as Medicine's New Teaching Texts
Dr. Cindy Stelmackowich, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa

These will be followed by a visit to the Osler Library to view some of the works discussed.

For more information please contact Chris Lyons (christopher.lyons [at] mcgill.ca, 514-398-4475, ext 09847)


[The Image is from John Lizars’ A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body (Edinburgh, 1822). The scan is courtesy of ]

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