Beatriz Pichel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4862689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatriz Pichel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatriz |
| FAMILY NAME | Pichel |
| SIGNATURE | PICHEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7542-2852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)
While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The subventions provided by the French welfare organisation Assistance Publique and approved by the Paris city council between 1879 and 1913 enabled the institutionalisation of photography in Parisian hospitals. During the first period (ca. 1879–98), the As…
Reading Photography in French Nineteenth Century Journals
This article explores how photographs published in the French medical and, to some extent, the popular press helped readers to interpret expressions and gestures as signs of emotional states, morbid conditions and physiological and psychological processes. The first two sections examine the use of photography to visualise normal and pathological bodies through measurements and experiments in the medical press, particularly Nouvelle Iconographie d…
Les Gueules Cassées. Photography and the Making of Disfigurement
Between 1914 and 1918, French visual culture was saturated with photographs of amputees: ex-combatants who had lost an arm or a leg, and had substituted them for prosthetic devices. However, these pictures were all about body mutilations. Facial injuries were also profusely photographed, but barely penetrated into the French visual culture. This article explores the reasons behind this invisibility. It maintains that, during the war, bodily mutil…
From facial expressions to bodily gestures: Passions, photography and movement in French 19 th -century sciences
This article aims to determine to what extent photographic practices in psychology, psychiatry and physiology contributed to the definition of the external bodily signs of passions and emotions in the second half of the 19 th century in France. Bridging the gap between recent research in the history of emotions and photographic history, the following analyses focus on the photographic production of scientists and photographers who made significan…
Illness and image. Case studies in the medical humanities by Sander L. Gilman
Illness and image. Case studies in the medical humanities by Sander L. Gilman." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 344–345
From facial expressions to bodily gestures: Passions, photography and movement in French 19 th -century sciences
This article aims to determine to what extent photographic practices in psychology, psychiatry and physiology contributed to the definition of the external bodily signs of passions and emotions in the second half of the 19 th century in France. Bridging the gap between recent research in the history of emotions and photographic history, the following analyses focus on the photographic production of scientists and photographers who made significan…
Reading Photography in French Nineteenth Century Journals
This article explores how photographs published in the French medical and, to some extent, the popular press helped readers to interpret expressions and gestures as signs of emotional states, morbid conditions and physiological and psychological processes. The first two sections examine the use of photography to visualise normal and pathological bodies through measurements and experiments in the medical press, particularly Nouvelle Iconographie d…
From facial expressions to bodily gestures: Passions, photography and movement in French 19 th -century sciences
This article aims to determine to what extent photographic practices in psychology, psychiatry and physiology contributed to the definition of the external bodily signs of passions and emotions in the second half of the 19 th century in France. Bridging the gap between recent research in the history of emotions and photographic history, the following analyses focus on the photographic production of scientists and photographers who made significan…
Illness and image. Case studies in the medical humanities by Sander L. Gilman
Illness and image. Case studies in the medical humanities by Sander L. Gilman." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 344–345
Les Gueules Cassées. Photography and the Making of Disfigurement
Between 1914 and 1918, French visual culture was saturated with photographs of amputees: ex-combatants who had lost an arm or a leg, and had substituted them for prosthetic devices. However, these pictures were all about body mutilations. Facial injuries were also profusely photographed, but barely penetrated into the French visual culture. This article explores the reasons behind this invisibility. It maintains that, during the war, bodily mutil…
Reading Photography in French Nineteenth Century Journals
This article explores how photographs published in the French medical and, to some extent, the popular press helped readers to interpret expressions and gestures as signs of emotional states, morbid conditions and physiological and psychological processes. The first two sections examine the use of photography to visualise normal and pathological bodies through measurements and experiments in the medical press, particularly Nouvelle Iconographie d…
The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)
While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The subventions provided by the French welfare organisation Assistance Publique and approved by the Paris city council between 1879 and 1913 enabled the institutionalisation of photography in Parisian hospitals. During the first period (ca. 1879–98), the As…
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