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Making Sense of Medicine

Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge

John Nott Anna Harris

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English
Intellect Books
30 December 2022
A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and the reproduction of medical knowledge. 

Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft. To that end, this edited collection brings together historians, anthropologists, educators, artists, and curators to explore the role of materiality in medical education. 

With a broad temporal focus and international scope, the volume focuses on the materials, objects, tools, and technologies that facilitate the reproduction of medical knowledge and often also reify understandings of medical science. Experimental in form and supplemented with ethnographic, museological, and historical cases from around the world, this edited volume is the first to fully explore the matter of medical education in the modern world.

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Imprint:   Intellect Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 170mm, 
ISBN:   9781789385779
ISBN 10:   1789385776
Series:   Global Health Humanities
Pages:   464
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: What Matters in Medical Education? – John Nott and Anna Harris ARCHITECTURE / Designing a Discipline: Architecture for Pathology in the Interwar Period –  Annmarie Adams ART / Objectivity, Art and Medical Images – Sally Wyatt BALLOONS / Lessons from a Balloon – Christine den Harder and Anna Harris CADAVERS / The Geography of the Dead and the Movement of the Living: Kinetic Consciousness and the Limits of the Cadaver – Rachel Prentice CHALKBOARDS / Anatomy of the Chalkboard – Rachel Vaden Allison CIGARETTE PAPERS / The Cigarette Paper, the Embroiderer, and the Gendered Craft of Vascular Surgery – Paul Craddock CIRCULATION / Circulated Concepts, Images and Objects – Harro van Lente DISSECTING ROOMS / ‘The Lady Anatomist’: Fragmented Bodies, Photographic Assemblage and the ‘Art’ of Dissection at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1895–98 – Jessica M. Dandona FILM / ‘See For Yourself’: Autopsy Film as Audio-Visual Mediation of Learning Experiences, c.1928–1962 – Christian Bonah and Joel Danet FILM / ‘Now We Are Going to Look at a Piece of Film’: Projecting Medicine in Twentieth Century Medical Education – Angela Saward GARDENS / Groundwork for Planetary Health: Reimagining Gardens in Medical Education – Stacey Langwick and Mary Mosha GLOVES / The Context of Touch: Gloves and the Pelvic Exam – Kelly Underman HANDBOOKS / Chinese Medical Illustrations and Communist Materialism, 1950-1966 – Lan Li HEARTS / The Heart of the Simulated Matter: Interprofessional Training Practices of Clinical Care – Ivana Guarrasi ILLUSTRATIONS / Performed with Care: Enacting Accuracy in Medical Illustration – Drew Danielle Belsky ILLUSTRATIONS / Material Images: Flesh on Paper in Twentieth-Century Surgical Drawing – Harriet Palfreyman ILLUSTRATIONS / The Radford Collection: Exploring and Experiencing the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Midwifery Lecture – Rebecca Whiteley LABOUR / Invisible Work – Sally Wyatt MICROSCOPES / The Virtual Microscope: Tracing Knowledge of Human Microstructure Through Digital Images – R. Claire Aland, Nicole Shepherd, Belinda Swyny and Mary-Louise Roy Manchadi MUSEUMS / The Pathology Museum at Korle Bu – Robert Kumoji and John Nott NURSERVERS / The Nurserver – David Theodore PHOTOGRAPHS / Typologies of Fatness: Constitutional Photography in Western Medicine, c.1930-60 – Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen PLACE, AND AFFECT / Matters of Place and Affect – Rachel Vaden Allison and John Nott PROPS / Props in Breaking Bad News Simulation – Kaisu Koski and Kirsten Ostherr RADIOGRAPHS / Lasers, Screens and Models: The Material Assemblages of Learning Pattern Recognition in Radiography Education – Peter D. Winter SIMULATIONS / Simulations in Health Professions Education – Andrea Wojcik SKULLS / Medical Museums, Materiality, and the Traumatic Brain Injury of Phineas Gage – Denielle Elliott with Dominic Hall STETHOSCOPES / This Thing, A Stethoscope – Claire Wendland TEXTILES / Materialities of Surgery: Learning Through Thread – Roger Kneebone and Fleur Oakes ULTRASOUNDS / Developing Ultrasound: Knowledge Dissemination and Technological Change, 1945-1980 – Jakob Lehne WOUNDS / The Fake Wound: Thinking Through Materials in Osce Simulations – Andrea Wojcik, Victor Mogre, Anthony Amalba, Celia Yamile Rodriguez and Francis A. Abantanga ZEBRAS / Zebras, not Horses: On Limits and Margins of Biomedical Knowledge – Candida F. Sanchez Burmester Notes on Contributors Index

John Nott is an economic and medical historian and a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked as part of the ‘Making Clinical Sense’ project at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Anna Harris is associate professor of anthropology and science and technology studies at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Her work concerns issues of learning, sensing (and other bodily practices) and the contemporary/historical role of technologies in medicine. She leads the European Research Council funded project ‘Making Clinical Sense.’

Reviews for Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge

'What is novel in the collection is its invention and ingenuity in trying to reach new audiences outside of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Doctors, artists and educators all feature as authors and participants in the essays, and often essays find experimental ways to explore the terrains of medical education. Uniting these various interlocutors is the consideration of how materials shape knowing. [...] There is a degree to which to know something one must do that something. To know how to steer a boat, one should get as close to the rudder as possible, should feel more closely the way that the water pushes against the instrument as it carves through its surface. One can’t learn at a distance. In Making Sense of Medicine, this collection suggests that we need to reposition ourselves, move our hand closer to the rudder. I am inclined to agree.' -- Max Perry, The Polyphony


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