Modelling the Human – Modelling Society Anatomical Models in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna and the Politics of Visual Cultures

This paper aims at investigating anatomical modelling as a cultural practice. In early twentieth-century Vienna anatomists and artists produced a variety of models of the human body that had different functions, uses and meanings in changing historical scientific, political and cultural contexts. To...

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Main Author: Birgit Nemec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2014-05-01
Series:Histoire, Médecine et Santé
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/hms/638