| Title: |
The Art of Medicine |
| Authors: |
Barnes, Emm; Anderson, Julie; Shackleton, Emma |
| Publisher Information: |
Ilex Press |
| Publication Year: |
2011 |
| Collection: |
University of Kent: KAR - Kent Academic Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
D History General and Old World |
| Description: |
For thousands of years artists have played a special role in the human quest to understand anatomy, health and disease; this book celebrates their creativity and inquisitiveness using little-seen, stunning imagery from one of the worlds greatest collections. The Wellcome Collection is based on the enormous bequest left by pioneering pharmacist Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936). For many years, he travelled the globe, acquiring any kind of art or artefact with a bearing on health and medical treatment: the resulting collection everything from oil paintings, to dentures, scrolls, glass eyes and illuminated books numbers over a million pieces, and forms a unique history of humankinds growing understanding of ourselves and our world. Using a wealth of previously unseen images from the collection, and telling the fascinating story of medical understanding worldwide, The Art of Medicine celebrates both medical advance and visual artistry. |
| Document Type: |
book |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
Barnes, Emm, Anderson, Julie, Shackleton, Emma (2011) The Art of Medicine. 1. Ilex Press, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-907579-13-4. (doi:10.1097/01720610-201104000-00015 ) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:54083 ) |
| Availability: |
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/54083/; http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo12273935.html |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F434F86B |
| Database: |
BASE |