Research Catalog

Title

Medicine and art / Alan E.H. Emery and Marcia L.H. Emery ; foreword by Sir John Hanson.

Author

Emery, Alan E. H.

Publication

London : Royal Society of Medicine, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Emery, Marcia L. H.
• Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)
• Royal College of Physicians of London

Description

x, 112 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

"The relationship between medicine and art has always been a fertile source of discussion and debate. This book evolved from a series of articles written by Alan Emery about art and medicine in Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. The authors present a superb collection of over fifty pieces of art, reflecting the physician's role in society and the relationship between doctor and patient. This is an international selection of artworks, tracing both the history of art and the development of medicine from the Ancient Greeks to the present day, illustrating changing perceptions and applications of medicine, through varied styles and artistic media. Each work of art is accompanied by a short essay describing the history of the artist and the subject of the artwork. The full colour illustrations and detailed Appendix of further artworks depicting specific medical conditions make this book a unique treasure trove of information for all who share the authors' love of art, history and medicine."--Jacket.

Subject

• Paintings
• Medicine in the Arts
• Medicine and art

Genre/Form

Pictorial Work

Note

• Published in association with Royal College of Physicians, London.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Early medicine -- 2. Ayurvedic Practitioner Taking the Pulse (Delhi, c 1830), artist unknown -- 3. Medical Painting from Central Tibet (1800-1899) -- 4. Physician Taking a Patient's Pulse in a Persian Garden (17th century) from the cover of a copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine -- 5. Hippocrates Medicating a Patient (13th century) from De regimine acutorum -- 6. St. Humility Healing a Sick Nun (c 1341) by Pietro Lorenzetti -- 7. Illustration from a French translation of De Proprietatibus Rerum (late 15th century) by Bartholomew Anglicus -- 8. St. Francis Healing the Leper (c 1630) by Giovanni Battista Crespi (called Il Cerano) -- 9. Quack Doctor (1652) by Gerrit Dou -- 10. Village Doctor (c 1650) by David Teniers the Younger -- 11. Physician (1653) by Gerrit Dou -- 12. Doctor's Visit (c 1663) by Jan Steen -- 13. Marriage a la Mode: The Inspection (1743) by William Hogarth -- 14. Apothecary (or The Spice Shop) (1752) by Pietro Longhi -- 15. Dr. William Glysson (c 1780-1785) by Winthrop Chandler -- 16. Pinel Frees the Insane from their Chains (1876) by Tony Robert-Fleury -- 17. Vaccination (1807) by Louis-Leopold Boilly -- 18. Mandarin Doctor Consulting a Patient (19th century) by Zhou Pei Qun -- 19. George Washington in His Last Illness, Attended by Doctors Craik and Brown (c 1800) Coloured engraving -- 20. Consultation or Last Hope (1808) by Thomas Rowlandson -- 21. Laennec Listening to the Chest of a Patient (c 1910) by Ernest Board -- 22. Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta (1820) by Francisco de Goya -- 23. Doctor Robert Macaire (1836) by Honore Daumier -- 24. Medicine Man Curing a Patient (c 1850) Chromolithograph by C. Schuessele after a work by Captain S. Eastman -- 25. Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari (1857) by Jerry Barrett -- 26. Foundling Restored to its Mother (1858) by Emma Brownlow -- 27. Illness of Pierrot (1859-1860) by Thomas Couture -- 28. Student (c 1860s) by Francisco Oller y Cestero -- 29. Doubtful Hope (1875) by Frank Holl -- 30. Visit to Aesculapius (1880) by Sir Edward Poynter -- 31. Clinical Lesson at the Salpetriere (c1887) by Pierre-Andre Brouillet -- 32. Hospital at Arles (1889) by Vincent van Gogh -- 33. Doctor (c1891) by Sir Luke Fildes -- 34. Doctor Teaching on a Sick Child Before an Audience of Doctors and Students, New York Polyclinic School of Medicine (1891) by Irving R. Wiles -- 35. Death in the Sick Room (1893) by Edvard Munch -- 36. Science and Charity (1897) by Pablo Picasso -- 37. Le Tubage (1904) by Georges Chicotot -- 38. Sentence of Death (1908) by John Collier -- 39. First Wounded, London Hospital, 1914 (1915) by John Lavery -- 40. Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918 (1918) by Henry Tonks -- 41. Bed Making (1932) by Sir Stanley Spencer -- 42. Hospital Ward II (1920) by Hilding Linnqvist -- 43. Drug Store (1927) by Edward Hopper -- 44. Doctor and Doll (1929) by Norman Rockwell -- 45. Norman Rockwell Visits a Family Doctor (1947) by Norman Rockwell -- 46. Children's Doctor (1949) by Andrew Wyeth -- 47. Doctor (1950) by Anna Mary Robertson Moses ('Grandma Moses') -- 48. Ancoats Hospital Outpatients' Hall (1952) by L.S. Lowry -- 49. Healing of a Lunatic Boy (1986) by Stephen Conroy -- 50. Madhouse (1987) by Sergei Chepik -- 51. Compassion of the Intensive Care Sister (1989) by Sir Roy Calne -- 52. African Healer Throwing Bones (2000) by Meg Campbell -- 53. Patient and Researcher (2001) by Louise Riley -- Selection of Medical Conditions Depicted in Paintings.

ISBN

1853155012

OCLC

• 51529170
• SCSB-11204252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library