Les Gueules Cassées. Photography and the Making of Disfigurement

Pichel, Beatriz

doi:10.1080/17526272.2016.1257263

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“…Historical studies of clinical photography have been similarly 'troubled' by sensations and affects. Self-reflexivity serves, in this academic corpus, to foreground the bodily and historically situated conditions of viewing (and of scientific/ historical knowledge), but it is also a way of attending to the bodies and lives whose traces persist, mutely, in archives and museums (Bate 2021;Pichel 2017;Rawling 2017Rawling , 2021Rose 2000;Slobogin 2022).…”

Section: Art History and The History Of Medicinementioning

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What can art history offer medical humanities?

Biernoff,

Johnstone

2024

Med Humanities

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This article charts the emergence of visual medical humanities as a space of academic research, creative practice and lively critical debate, with a focus on how art historical scholarship has influenced the field’s formation. Concentrating on developments over the past decade, it offers an overview of current scholarship while highlighting opportunities and challenges for the future. We begin with a survey of medical and health humanities handbooks and readers, noting that their engagement with art and visual culture is predominately limited to the contexts of therapy, clinical pedagogy and medical history. The main part of the article explores art historical scholarship in relation to three areas of significance for the medical humanities. First, we address art historical research that engages with medical history, identifying majortopoiincluding the anatomical body, the doctor-patient encounter and the close relationship between clinical and artistic vision; we argue that this work has tended to presume, rather than explicitly articulate, its relationship to medical humanities and recommend that art historians wishing to engage more deeply with the medical humanities need to clearly communicate what their work brings to wider debates in the field. Second, we explore contemporary arts practices that mobilise health-related experiences, forms of care and practical activism: medical humanities, we argue, has much to gain from a critical engagement with contemporary (as well as historical) art. Third, we review three art history-led projects that are redefining the field and promoting new models for collaborative ‘entanglement’ across disciplines:Art HX: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism; Visualizing the Virus; andConfabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities. By arguing for the vital importance of attending to the critical complexities of art and visual culture, this article aims to enrich existing debates and provoke a new wave of visually engaged medical humanities scholarship.

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