Pathology and Visual Culture

The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpetriere School

By: Natasha Ruiz-Gomez

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Hardcover | 8 July 2024

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232 Pages

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20.9 x 26.2 x 2.2

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In this book, Natasha Ruiz-G mez delves into an extraordinary collection of pathological drawings, photographs, sculptures, and casts created by neurologists at Paris's H pital de la Salp tri re in the nineteenth century. Led by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and known collectively as the Salp tri re School, these savants-artistes produced works that demonstrated an engagement with contemporary artistic discourses and the history of art, even as the artists/clinicians professed their dedication to absolute objectivity.

During his lifetime, Charcot became internationally famous for his studies of hysteria and hypnosis, establishing himself as a pioneer in modern neurology. However, this book brings to light the often-overlooked contributions of other clinicians, such as Dr. Paul Richer, who created "scientific artworks" that merged scientific objectivity with artistic intervention. Challenging conventional interpretations of visual media in medicine, Ruiz-G mez analyzes how these images and objects documented symptoms and neuropathology while defying disciplinary categorization.

Grounded in extensive archival research, Pathology and Visual Culture targets an international audience of historians and students of art, visual culture, medicine, and the medical humanities. It will also captivate neurologists and anyone interested in fin-de-si cle French history and culture.

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"Pathology and Visual Culture is the first study to deeply engage with the range of visual productions of the Salpetriere School. This welcome book brings much overdue attention to material hardly or not at all mentioned by the many scholars-art historians, visual culture specialists, and historians of science and medicine-who have concentrated on the painted and photographic representations of hysteria directed by Charcot."

-Allison Morehead,author of Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form

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