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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

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by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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

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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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