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Dittrick Book Launch Event: Rhetoric in the Flesh

Contributor: Julia Balacko EVENT: Book Launch for T. Kenny Fountain's Rhetoric in the Flesh Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the book launch for T. Kenny Fountain's Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab at the Dittrick Museum. At the event, Fountain discussed some of the key arguments from the book, and shared anecdotes from his participant observation in the human gross anatomy lab. Fountain's text is an ethnographic account penned from the perspective of a rhetorician of science communication. His focus on language offers a lens into anatomical learning and clinical training that is at once pointed...

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NYAM hosts Vesalius 500: Art and Anatomy

This October, the New York Academy of Medicine will host Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500, Guest curated by artist and anatomist Riva Lehrer On October 18, the NYAM's second-annual Festival for Medical History and the Arts, “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500″ will celebrate the 500th birthday of anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Our own Brandy Schillace, research associate and guest curator for the Dittrick, will be one of the hosted speakers! Click here for the full schedule--and see below for a short description. Vesalius’ groundbreaking De humani corporis fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body) of 1543 is a...

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Under Your Skin: the Anatomy Artwork of H.V. Carter

The history of Gray’s Anatomy is well known, but it's brilliant illustrator Henry Vandyke Carter, is frequently it's "unsung hero." Though working tirelessly on the book that would go on to be the single most important textbook for anatomy and medical students, his contribution was "torpedoed" by Henry Gray, and he sunk into obscurity. What remains are the images, displayed here, from the Dittrick Museum's 1859 edition. There were two authors, of Gray's Anatomy, not one. However, as Druin Burch explains, Henry Vandyke Carter "regarded himself, sometimes with a little help from Gray, as belonging to a lower 'genus'...

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Newsworthy Events

Welcome back tot he Dittrick Museum Blog! Today, we would like to mention some newsworthy events upcoming in February. Mark your calendars, Clevelandites! FEBRUARY 19 FROM THE TIGRIS TO THE TIBER: A CASE OF BABYLONIAN ‘ASTRO-MEDICINE’ IN PLINY THE ELDER The Departments of Classics and History are sponsoring a talk on ancient "astro-medicine" (free and open to the public) on Wednesday, February 19 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM in Mather House 100 Maddalena Rumor, Doctoral Candidate, Freie Universität, Berlin, will present and compare two texts – a puzzling late Babylonian Kalendertext written on a cuneiform tablet in Uruk by a scholar named Iqīšâ (late...

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