Christine Slobogin

Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper

How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary approach to medical history that shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional and aesthetic parameters of plastic surgery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781648251054
• ISBN-10: 1648251056
• Artikelnr.: 73357515

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINE SLOBOGIN, an art historian of medicine, is an Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Approaching the
Archive 1. Collecting Affect: Emotion, Empathy, and the Surgical Archive 2.
Narratives of the BAPRAS Archive 3. Counternarratives of the BAPRAS Archive
Part II: Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper 4. Dickie Orpen: Identity,
Pedagogy, and Medico-Artistic Looking 5. Plastic Humor: Dickie Orpen's
Palliative and Queer Cartoons 6. Percy Hennell: Color, Place, and Surgical
Emotion 7. "Something Useful in a National Sense": Percy Hennell's
Photography as Propaganda Conclusion Bibliography Index