Abstract
Western culture has a few traditions of representing the human body - Among them mortuary art (gisants), the freak show, the culture of the relics, renaissance art and pre-modern and modern anatomy. A historical analysis in the spirit of Norbert Elias is offered with regard to body - Person relationship in anatomy. Modern anatomy is characterized by separating the story of the person from the story of the body, a strategy that is incompatible with the bio-psycho-social paradigm of clinical medicine. The paper discusses different aspects of the above traditions and how they might bear on this conflict and on contemporary bioethics and bedside practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 193-205 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2005 |
Keywords
- Art
- Body art
- Contemporary
- Freak show
- Human anatomy
- Human body
- Prostitution