Medicine, Art and Visualization in the Nineteenth Century

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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 ]