Bible 55–6, 128, 159, 178, 197–8, 224, 248, 260
Leviticus 40, 143, 180, 234
quotations 40, 127, 130, 198, 203, 224, 234, 248
Biheron, Marie Marguerite 81
bile 151
Biojewellery Project 62
biological immortality 259
biotechnology 244
bisexuals 212
black bile 151
Black Death 51
bladder xv–xvii
blood 141–52
banks 146, 148
bloodletting 142, 150–52
and blushing 228–9, 233
cash for 149
and Christian ceremony 142–3
circulation 21, 71–2, 73, 129, 141–2
donors 145–9
flesh and 39–40, 43
giving blood 145–50
and heart 129
and heredity 144
and infection 145
in Judaism 142
in literature 144
menstrual 143–4
and race 144–5
screening 145, 147
taboos 40, 47, 142, 144
transfusions 147, 149–50
vessels see arteries; veins
blushing 228–9, 233
body
bare see nudity
body-as-computer 263–4
Cartesian body-as-machine 73, 263
dead bodies see cadavers
donors see donors
heat 227–8
as the human form see human form
organs and parts see specific parts
as prison of the soul 264
shapes of organs 131–6
technologically extending the body’s capabilities 243–64
body-snatchers 74
Boerhaave Museum, Leiden 7
bone marrow 51
bones 49–62
bone cells 61
ear 157
mechanics of 57–9
Bordo, Susan 45
boredom 261–2
Bosch, Hieronymus 153
The Garden of Earthly Delights 155–7, 156
Botox treatment 239
Botticelli, Sandro: Venus 94
Bourdin, Frédéric 105–6
Brahma 243
Braille 176
brain 69, 80, 112–26
and bladder xvi–xvii
‘cortical homunculus’ 120, 120–21
cranioscopy 114–15
and creativity 123, 124–5
eating the brain 182
Einstein’s 112–14
fMRI 123–6
Gall’s twenty-seven brain ‘organs’ 115, 115
and heart 130–31
and mental activity 123–4
mirror neurons 223
MRI 121–6
occipital lobe 119
and the overlapping of senses 172–7
parietal lobes 113–14
parietal operculum 113
phrenology 116–18, 119
pineal gland 119, 168–9
prefrontal cortex 113
research into homosexuality 212
and sight 172, 173, 174
and soul 119, 168–9
ventricles 119
visual cortex 119
BrainPort 174
branding 237
Braune, Christian 57
breast-feeding, public 236
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme: Physiology of Taste 183–5
British Psychological Society 126
Buckland, William 178–80
Vindiciae Geologiae 178
Buddha 216
Buddhist tradition 20, 216, 243
Bulgakov, Mikhail: Heart of a Dog 255
Bull, Deborah 220–22
Bulwer, John 191–2
Chirologia and Chironomia 191–2, 193
Buñuel, Luis 169
Burgoyne, Chris 59, 60
Burke, Edmund 30
Burke, William 74, 75
Burton, Robert 6
Burton, Tim: Edward Scissorhands 244
cadavers 8, 57, 72, 73–4, 75–6, 78, 181
blood from 149–50
eating human flesh 179, 181–3
Caenis/Caeneus 211
Calvert, Gemma 125
Camper, Petrus 90
cannibalism 179, 181–3
Canova, Antonio: The Three Graces 235–6
Cantlie, H. P. 120
Čapek, Karel 217, 219
‘Footprints’ 217
The Makropulos Secret 260–61
R. U. R. 217, 249
Carlyle, Thomas 160
Carroll, Lewis (C. L. Dodgson)
Alice in Wonderland 29
Through the Looking-glass 201
Carter, Henry Vandyke 78–80
Catherine the Great 81
Catts, Oron 164
Cervantes, Miguel de 93
Charles II 72
Chicago Sun Times 206
chloroform 79
choice, and the brain 123–4
cholerics 151
Christianity 142–3
chromosomes 209–10
Clark, Kenneth 229–30
Clarke, Alex 109
Cleopatra 99
clitoris 81–2
Clown Egg Register, Holy Trinity, Dalston 83
coccyx 53
cochlea 157
Cohen, Ben 155
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette): Sido 226
Colombo, Realdo 71–2, 81
Colossus of Constantine 224–5
Combe, George 116
competitive eating 185–6
composite photography 97–9, 100
computer images 100, 101–2, 104
consciousness 83, 85, 107–8, 229
Cope, Edward Drinker 34
coprolites 178
Coren, Stanley 199–200
cosmetic surgery 46, 110–11, 163, 239
Cossey, Barry, later Carolyn 210
counting systems 194
cranioscopy 114–15
creativity, and the brain 123, 124–5
Cromwell, Oliver 155
head 84–5
Crooke, Helkiah: Microcosmographia 80, 127, 190
Cross-Modal Research Laboratory, Oxford 172
Cruikshank, George 117, 204
Cuisse de Nymphe/Cuisse de Nymphe Emue 226
Cundy, Jody 244–7
cupping 142
Cursor Mundi 39
cycling 244–8
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien 90
dance 220–23
danse macabre 51
d’Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux 81
Darwin, Charles 32, 96–7, 228–9
Davis, Natalie Zemon 107
de Grey, Aubrey 256–60, 261
dead bodies see cadavers
death 256, 258
and life expectancy 255–61
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe 215, 216, 217
Delacroix, Eugène: Liberty Leading the People 236
denary counting 194
dentistry 76
Descartes, René 21, 73, 119, 165, 168–9, 189
Cartesian body-as-machine 73, 263
Dioptrique 168
the eye 165–7, 166, 168–9
the soul 168
Diamond, Marian 113
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House 195
A Christmas Carol 101
diet 178–86
digestion 180–81
digitus annularis 195
digitus auricularis 195
digitus impudicus/medicus 195
Dinoire, Isabelle 108
Dionysus 55
DNA 201, 257
Dolet, Etienne 127
Don Juan legend 243–4
Donne, John xxiv, 6, 23, 149, 207
donors
animal ‘donors’ 252–3
blood 145–9
body/organ 9, 109–10, 136, 138–9
face 109–10
dopamine 152
&nb
sp; Doryphoros (Polykleitos) 24
Douglas, Mary 143–4
dress 213
du Camp, Maxime 23
Dürer, Albrecht 153
Ear on Arm 164
ears 103, 153–64, 235
and ability to distinguish pitch 157–8
in art 153–7, 159, 161–2, 164
cochlea 157
Darwin’s point 163
grafted 163, 164
iconicity of 163
severed 159–61, 162
War of Jenkins’ Ear 159–60
eating 178–86
Ecker, Alexander 196
Eco, Umberto 215
Edison, Thomas 50, 118, 122
Edwards, Rachel 101–2
Efit system 104
eggs 209–10, 259
Egyptian hieroglyphics 132
Eiberg, Hans 171
Einstein, Albert 112, 228
electron spin 201–2
Elias, Norbert 41, 235
Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda 101
Elizabeth I xxii, 42, 102
embryonic development 200–201, 210
en pointe position 221
endocrinology 152
endorphins 152
Éon de Beaumont, Charles, Chevalier d’ 213–14
Epictetus 20
eroticism 50, 207, 220, 235–6
Essay Concerning the Infinite Wisdom of God, Manifested in the Contrivance and Structure of the Skin 236–7
ethnicity 237
eugenics 97–9
eunuchs 253–4
Eustachi, Bartolomeo 20
Eustachian tube 20
Eve (biblical) 55–6, 90, 156, 203, 236
Eve (Visible Human Project) 36
Evo-fit system 104
Extra Ear ¼ Scale 164
eyes 102–3, 165–77
colour 170–72
Descartes 165–77, 166
and facial recognition 103, 233
and identity 170
iris 170
and optical refraction 167
pupils 167
and sight 167–9, 172–4
and the soul 170
face 96–111
donors 109–10
facial recognition 102–8, 233
transplants 109–11
Faint, Mattie 83
Fallopian tubes 20
Falloppio, Gabriele 20, 70, 81
Fame 243
Fantastic Voyage xxiii
fat 11, 44–8, 231
fatty acids 46
feet 215–25
and ballet 220–23
foot binding 219
footprints 215–19
and sport 220
taboos concerning 219
Ferreri, Marco: La Grande Bouffe 185, 186
fig leaves 203, 204, 207
Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) 21
fingerprinting 32
fingers 187–8, 194–5, 196–7
index to ring finger ratio 196–7
signs 190–91, 192–4
Fischer, Otto 57
Flavel, John 128
quotation 127
flesh 38–48
art, skin tone and 226–7
eating human flesh 181–3
mortification 239
flexor digitorum profundis 189
flexor digitorum superficialis 188
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) 123–6
food 178–86
footprints 215–19
For Your Eyes Only 210
Fore people, Papua New Guinea 181–2
fossils 178
footprints 217–19
Frankenstein syndrome 138
French Assembly 198
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) 123–6
‘G spot’ 82
Gachet, Paul 161
Gaia theory 20
gait 57–8
Galen of Pergamon 45, 69, 80, 119, 128, 150
Galileo Galilei 165
Gall, Franz Joseph 114–16
twenty-seven brain ‘organs’ 115, 115
Galton, Francis 31–3, 96–9, 98, 102–3, 170–71
gastronomy 178–86
Gates, Stefan 47
Gauguin, Paul 161
gays 145, 212
Geminoid robots 250
gender
and cultural self-definition 212–13
deceptions 213–14
and dress 213
the female form 45, 55, 81, 204, 206–7, 231–2
and language 213
the male form 8, 55, 204
reassignment 207–9, 214
sex see sex
Gender Recognition Act 209
General Electric 122
genitals xxii, 80, 81–2, 200, 203–7, 210, 212–13, 253–5
geographical metaphors of the human body xxiii–xxiv, 19–22
gestures 190–94, 193
Getty III, J. Paul 160
Gilbert and Sullivan: Princess Ida 229
Giotto 132
Gladstone, William 230
Glaser, Milton 133
glial cells 113
God 51, 89, 130, 142, 198, 216, 217
Godiva, Lady 230, 236
Gogol, Nikolai
Dead Souls 88
The Nose xxii, 87–8, 89
Gombrich, Ernst 205
Gordon, J. E.: Structures 189
Gräfenberg, Ernst 82
Grande Bouffe, La (Ferreri) 185, 186
Gray, Effie 231
Gray, Henry 77–80
Gray’s Anatomy 54, 78, 79–80, 81, 127
Great Maiden’s Blush 226
Greene, Joshua 124
Gregory, Richard 173–4
Griffith-Cima, Linda 163
Grimaldi, Joseph 83
Grimm, Brothers: ‘The Frog Prince’ 243
Grossmann, Marcel 228
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