Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-330) and index.Contents: Foreword / Martin Kemp -- 1. Setting the Medical Scene: the History of the Development of Medical Practice -- 2. Medical Images in Hogarth's London: Early Satires -- i. The Rabbit Woman: art and guile in the case of Mary Toft -- ii. The Company of Undertakers -- 3. The Itinerant Quack -- 4. A Pox on You All: Medical Images in Eighteenth-Century Themes of Morality -- i. A Harlot's Progress -- ii. Marriage-a-la-Mode -- iii. Mothers' Ruin: Gin Lane and the art of alcohol abuse -- 5. Hogarth at St Bartholomew's Hospital -- 6. A Question of Taste, or a Taste of Madness -- i. The Rake's Progress -- ii. Hypochondriasis -- iii. Treatment of madness -- 7. Fashions in Health and Treatment -- i. Taking the waters -- ii. Aerial, aetherial, magnetic and electrical applications -- iii. 'Wonders! Wonders! Wonders! and Wonders!' -- iv. Animal magnetism -- v. Tractorisation -- 8. From the Womb . -- i. Touching on midwifery -- ii. What became of the children? -- iii. Vaccination -- 9. . To the Tomb -- i. Dentistry: a big smile -- ii. Licensed to kill? -- iii. A public anatomy -- iv. Kill or cure -- 10. The End -- i. Death comes at the end -- ii. Remember thou shalt die. Subjects: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 Criticism and interpretation.Rowlandson, Thomas 1756-1827 Criticism and interpretation. Hogarth, William 1697-1764.Rowlandson, Thomas 1756-1827. Hogarth, William 1697-1764. Rowlandson, Thomas Criticism and interpretation.Hogarth, William (1697-1764) Critique et interprétation. Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) Critique et interprétation. Großbritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main1700-1799. 18th century.Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, British 18th century. Art. Caricatures and cartoons. Painting.Medicine in the ArtsArt Caricatures as TopicEngraving and EngravingsPaintings Cartoons as Topic Médecine et art Grande-Bretagne.Art britannique 18e siècle.Art. Caricatures et dessins humoristiques. Peinture.fine arts (discipline)works of art. caricatures.cartoons (humorous images) paintings (visual works) painting (image-making) Painting. Caricatures and cartoons.Art. Art, British. Medicine and art. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, Modern Great Britain History.Médecine et art Grande-Bretagne. Art Grande-Bretagne 17e siècle.Art 18e siècle Grande-Bretagne. Geschichte 1700-1800. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, British 18th century. Art, Modern Great Britain 18th century.Modernism (Art) Great Britain 18th century.Medicine and art Great Britain History 18th century.Art, Modern 17th century.Art 17th-18th centuries Great Britain. Art, Modern 17th century Great Britain.Medicine in art. Art Great Britain. Caricature.Art, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain.Medicine and art Great Britain History 18th century.Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain. Caricature Great Britain. Art, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain. Medicine and art Great Britain. Art, British 18th century. Medicine and art. Medicine in the ArtsArt history PhysiognomyMedicine in art Great Britain 18th century Prints, British 18th century Caricatures and cartoons Great BritainArt, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain Themes, motivesCaricature Great Britain.Medicine ; Caricatures and cartoons. Medicine Great Britain ; Caricatures and cartoons. Physicians ; Caricatures and cartoons.Physicians Great Britain ; Caricatures and cartoons.HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY, GREAT BRITAIN. United Kingdom Great Britain.England Great Britain.Art, Modern-18th century-Great Britain Medicine and art. Art and medicine 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 393336

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Title: From Hogarth to Rowlandson : medicine in art...

Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: First Edition.

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From Hogarth to Rowlandson shows how medicine and medical practitioners were portrayed by some of the artists of the eighteenth century. Medical imagery is a forceful component of eighteenth-century art and, taken as a corpus, the works of artists such as Hogarth and Rowlandson provide a lay view of some of the contemporary medical developments and of the attitudes held towards members of the medical profession. Eighteenth-century medical imagery does not only appear overtly as illustrations of medical men with their patients being purged, bled, "given a vomit" and so forth, but also appears indirectly as part of a "language" based upon symbolism, allegory and the use of emblems in a traditional manner still commonly employed in the eighteenth century. Haslam places "the art of medicine" of the eighteenth century in its social, historical and political context and shows how this, together with a knowledge of the lives of the artists themselves, is necessary for a better understanding of that art in an age in which hope was often raised by medical innovation, but all too often dashed. Among the aspects considered are: medical images in Hogarth's early satires, the innovation of vaccination, death, madness, fashion in medicine, midwifery and birth, blood-letting, the role and practice of the itinerant quack, surgery, and medicine and morality.

This book provides an insight into the use of highly charged and often complicated representations of medicine and doctors in graphic and literary art. It will be of interest to social, medical and art historians as well as to general readers.

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