5 October 2005
Dream Anatomies: The Cultural Meaning
of Anatomical Representation
Michael Sappol , National Library of Medicine , NIH,
Virginia Taylor Lyons, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology , UVA
Visually representing the human body and, especially, its interior is a time-honored tradition in both science and the arts. What do the body and its secret spaces mean to us – including the medical student dissecting a human cadaver – and to our cultural imagination? What can we learn by "reading" anatomical drawings and studying imaginative or "spectacular" representations of the body from 1500 to the present?
Co-presented with the Gross & Developmental Anatomy course
and Historical Collections , Claude Moore Health Sciences Library