Carin Berkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carin Berkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carin |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | BERKOWITZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science History Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reframing the Public Humanities: The Tensions, Challenges & Potentials of a More Expansive Endeavor
This essay assesses the so-called crisis in the humanities from the vantage point of the state humanities councils, looking at the richness and increasing diversity of public humanities work happening outside the academy. The essay posits that the humanities are flourishing in a variety of public spaces, where voices outside the academy are more effectively questioning what it means to commemorate the past and build in community and meaning throu…
Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
The Illustrious Anatomist: Authorship, Patronage, and Illustrative Style in Anatomy Folios, 1700–1840
A number of anatomists working in the period 1700–1840 used expensive illustrated books to depict their greatest scientific work, establish priority of discovery for posterity, and enlist patrons. These anatomists drew on the grand traditions of anatomical illustration and asserted their right to a place within that history. But with artists mediating the expression of anatomists’ vision, it was important that an anatomist assert his control over…
Introduction: Beyond Illustrations
Introduction: Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects Carin Berkowitz (bio) This forum engages with a central component of medical science and medical practice—the visualization of anatomy, pathology, and disease. It is about the collaborations among surgeons, medical men, and anatomists that were necessary to visualization, and about the authority bestowed upon an image or object that stands for a part of the body or a diseas…
Defining a discovery: Priority and methodological controversy in early nineteenth-century anatomy
In the early nineteenth century, Charles Bell and François Magendie engaged in a decades-long priority dispute over the discovery of the roots of motor and sensory nerves. The constantly recalibrated arguments of its participants illuminate changes in the life sciences during that period. When Bell first wrote about the nerves in 1811, surgeon-anatomists ran small schools out of their homes, natural theology was in vogue, exchanges between Britis…
Charles Bell's seeing hand: Teaching anatomy to the senses in Britain, 1750-1840
Charles Bell's Bridgewater Treatise on the hand should be read as elaborating philosophies of pedagogy and the senses, and as fitting with Bell's work on the nervous system. In The Hand, Bell argues that sensory reception must be coupled with muscular action to establish true knowledge, elevating the 'doing' hand to epistemological parity with the long-superior 'seeing' eye. Knowledge in anatomy was typically couched in terms to do with sight and…
Systems of display: The making of anatomical knowledge in Enlightenment Britain
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century anatomy depended upon a variety of visual displays. Drawings in books, particularly expensive, beautiful and elaborately illustrated books that have been the objects of historians' fascination, were understood to function alongside chalk drawings done in classrooms, casual and formalized experience with animal and human corpses, text describing or contextualizing the images, and preserved specimens. T…
The Beauty of Anatomy: Visual Displays and Surgical Education in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
The early-nineteenth-century artist, anatomist, and teacher Sir Charles Bell saw anatomy and art as closely related subjects. He taught anatomy to artists and surgeons, illustrated his own anatomical texts, and wrote a treatise on the use of anatomy in art. The author explores the connections among visual displays representing human anatomy, aesthetics, and pedagogical practices for Bell and a particular group of British surgeon-anatomists. Creat…
Charles Bell's seeing hand: Teaching anatomy to the senses in Britain, 1750-1840
Charles Bell's Bridgewater Treatise on the hand should be read as elaborating philosophies of pedagogy and the senses, and as fitting with Bell's work on the nervous system. In The Hand, Bell argues that sensory reception must be coupled with muscular action to establish true knowledge, elevating the 'doing' hand to epistemological parity with the long-superior 'seeing' eye. Knowledge in anatomy was typically couched in terms to do with sight and…
Systems of display: The making of anatomical knowledge in Enlightenment Britain
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century anatomy depended upon a variety of visual displays. Drawings in books, particularly expensive, beautiful and elaborately illustrated books that have been the objects of historians' fascination, were understood to function alongside chalk drawings done in classrooms, casual and formalized experience with animal and human corpses, text describing or contextualizing the images, and preserved specimens. T…
Reframing the Public Humanities: The Tensions, Challenges & Potentials of a More Expansive Endeavor
This essay assesses the so-called crisis in the humanities from the vantage point of the state humanities councils, looking at the richness and increasing diversity of public humanities work happening outside the academy. The essay posits that the humanities are flourishing in a variety of public spaces, where voices outside the academy are more effectively questioning what it means to commemorate the past and build in community and meaning throu…
The Beauty of Anatomy: Visual Displays and Surgical Education in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
The early-nineteenth-century artist, anatomist, and teacher Sir Charles Bell saw anatomy and art as closely related subjects. He taught anatomy to artists and surgeons, illustrated his own anatomical texts, and wrote a treatise on the use of anatomy in art. The author explores the connections among visual displays representing human anatomy, aesthetics, and pedagogical practices for Bell and a particular group of British surgeon-anatomists. Creat…
Systems of display: The making of anatomical knowledge in Enlightenment Britain
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century anatomy depended upon a variety of visual displays. Drawings in books, particularly expensive, beautiful and elaborately illustrated books that have been the objects of historians' fascination, were understood to function alongside chalk drawings done in classrooms, casual and formalized experience with animal and human corpses, text describing or contextualizing the images, and preserved specimens. T…
Defining a discovery: Priority and methodological controversy in early nineteenth-century anatomy
In the early nineteenth century, Charles Bell and François Magendie engaged in a decades-long priority dispute over the discovery of the roots of motor and sensory nerves. The constantly recalibrated arguments of its participants illuminate changes in the life sciences during that period. When Bell first wrote about the nerves in 1811, surgeon-anatomists ran small schools out of their homes, natural theology was in vogue, exchanges between Britis…
Charles Bell's seeing hand: Teaching anatomy to the senses in Britain, 1750-1840
Charles Bell's Bridgewater Treatise on the hand should be read as elaborating philosophies of pedagogy and the senses, and as fitting with Bell's work on the nervous system. In The Hand, Bell argues that sensory reception must be coupled with muscular action to establish true knowledge, elevating the 'doing' hand to epistemological parity with the long-superior 'seeing' eye. Knowledge in anatomy was typically couched in terms to do with sight and…
The Illustrious Anatomist: Authorship, Patronage, and Illustrative Style in Anatomy Folios, 1700–1840
A number of anatomists working in the period 1700–1840 used expensive illustrated books to depict their greatest scientific work, establish priority of discovery for posterity, and enlist patrons. These anatomists drew on the grand traditions of anatomical illustration and asserted their right to a place within that history. But with artists mediating the expression of anatomists’ vision, it was important that an anatomist assert his control over…
Introduction: Beyond Illustrations
Introduction: Beyond Illustrations: Doing Anatomy with Images and Objects Carin Berkowitz (bio) This forum engages with a central component of medical science and medical practice—the visualization of anatomy, pathology, and disease. It is about the collaborations among surgeons, medical men, and anatomists that were necessary to visualization, and about the authority bestowed upon an image or object that stands for a part of the body or a diseas…
Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Reframing the Public Humanities: The Tensions, Challenges & Potentials of a More Expansive Endeavor
This essay assesses the so-called crisis in the humanities from the vantage point of the state humanities councils, looking at the richness and increasing diversity of public humanities work happening outside the academy. The essay posits that the humanities are flourishing in a variety of public spaces, where voices outside the academy are more effectively questioning what it means to commemorate the past and build in community and meaning throu…
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Medical History and Innovations (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Anatomy (4 works) · Anatomy (4 works) · History of Medicine Studies (4 works) · History of Science and Natural History (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)