Michael Sappol
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Sappol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Sappol |
| SIGNATURE | SAPPOL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagining Chinese Medicine
Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the book review forum. For our launch of this new format, we have invited an extended review of a recently published landmark volume in our field and a response to the review from the volume editors
Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth and Jennifer Wallis, Anxious Times
On the dustjacket, a cartoon from an 1890 issue of Punch shows: crowds, traffic, market-stalls, telegraph wires, belching smokestacks and a riot of garish commercial signage. Billboards, hot-air balloons and a carnivalesque assortment of outsized words and objects—‘sky-signs of the times’—tout hats, soap, eye-glasses, cigars, music halls, coffee, gloves, spirits, collars, lozenges, lunches, pipes, carpets, ladies’ boots, etc. All choreographed to…
Domenico Bertoloni Meli. Visualizing Disease
There is a long and distinguished tradition of scholarship on the history of anatomical illustration, Domenico Bertoloni Meli rightly observes, but somehow scholars have scanted what is perhaps an even larger category of medical image production—pathological illustration. Visualizing Disease, erudite, profusely illustrated, richly documented, begins to rectify that omission. Meli starts with the early modern origins of what came to be designated …
Thomas W. Laqueur. The Work of the Dead
Way back in 1983, in the very first issue of Representations, Thomas Laqueur published his first article on the cultural history of “Bodies, Death, and Pauper Funerals.”1 Since then he’s been busy: promoting “the body” as an academic field and term de rigueur (The Making of the Modern Body, 1987), arguing the history of the anatomical gendering of the human body (Making Sex, 1992), and the history of masturbation (Solitary Sex, 2003). But all the…
American Abyss
Reviewed by: American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry Michael Sappol Daniel E. Bender. American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. x + 329 pp. Ill. $39.95, £26.95 (978-0-8014-4598-9). In the decades following the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, American writers and activists gave nearly every aspect of the human condition an …
Elizabeth Stephens, Anatomy as Spectacle
The Odd Case of Charles Knowlton
In early-nineteenth-century America, anatomical narrative was crucial to the acquisition and performance of medical identity. Dissecting the dead, robbing graves, making and exhibiting “anatomical preparations,” and joking with bodies and body parts all served to affirm membership in the cult of medical knowledge. So did telling stories about such things. Through an examination of the autobiography of Charles Knowlton (1800–1850), a rural physici…
The Enlightenment Cyborg
Reviewed by: The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660–1830 Michael Sappol Allison Muri. The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660–1830. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. ix + 308 pp. Ill. $60.00, £40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8020-8850-3; ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8850-5). “[A]n exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated h…
Body Parts
Reviewed by: Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, and: The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging Michael Sappol Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier , eds. Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. x + 273 pp. Ill. $90.00 (0-7391-0933-2). José van Dijck . The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging. In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Imagin…
Purified by Fire
Reviewed by: Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America Michael Sappol Stephen Prothero . Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 266 pp. Ill. $27.50 (0-520-20816-1). On 6 December 1876 the corpse of Baron de Palm, an impoverished Austrian nobleman, was incinerated in the town of Washington, Pennsylvania. De Palm's cremation was a foundational performance:…
The Body Electric
Reviewed by: The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American Michael Sappol Carolyn Thomas de la Peña . The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. American History and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 328 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-8147-1953-8). The cultural history of the body has a historicizing tendency: maybe during the Paleolithic people began to think of themselves as creatures of s…
Twice Dead
In his 1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith argues that the essence of civilization, and the mark of the civilized person, lies in our ability to empathize. We even empathize with the dead, who can have no feelings—so highly developed is our propensity for imaginative identification with others. Identification with the dead, Smith posits, leads to an apprehension of our own mortality, a condition of consciousness that is requisite for us t…
Sappol Responds
In Therapy We Trust
A backlash against psychiatry, psychoanalysis, therapy, psychobabble, and psychological institutions and professions has been gathering momentum in the past few decades. On the left, critics condemn psychology as a discourse that adapts us to a repressive society and coerces us into participation in the capitalist order. Governmental policies based on psychological social science focus on effects and not causes, and distract from radical reform (…
A Traffic of Dead Bodies
Sammy Tubbs and Dr. Hubbs
Configurations - Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 1996
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Sammy Tubbs and Dr. Hubbs
Configurations - Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 1996
A Traffic of Dead Bodies
In Therapy We Trust
A backlash against psychiatry, psychoanalysis, therapy, psychobabble, and psychological institutions and professions has been gathering momentum in the past few decades. On the left, critics condemn psychology as a discourse that adapts us to a repressive society and coerces us into participation in the capitalist order. Governmental policies based on psychological social science focus on effects and not causes, and distract from radical reform (…
Twice Dead
In his 1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith argues that the essence of civilization, and the mark of the civilized person, lies in our ability to empathize. We even empathize with the dead, who can have no feelings—so highly developed is our propensity for imaginative identification with others. Identification with the dead, Smith posits, leads to an apprehension of our own mortality, a condition of consciousness that is requisite for us t…
Sappol Responds
Purified by Fire
Reviewed by: Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America Michael Sappol Stephen Prothero . Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 266 pp. Ill. $27.50 (0-520-20816-1). On 6 December 1876 the corpse of Baron de Palm, an impoverished Austrian nobleman, was incinerated in the town of Washington, Pennsylvania. De Palm's cremation was a foundational performance:…
The Body Electric
Reviewed by: The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American Michael Sappol Carolyn Thomas de la Peña . The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. American History and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 328 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-8147-1953-8). The cultural history of the body has a historicizing tendency: maybe during the Paleolithic people began to think of themselves as creatures of s…
Body Parts
Reviewed by: Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, and: The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging Michael Sappol Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier , eds. Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. x + 273 pp. Ill. $90.00 (0-7391-0933-2). José van Dijck . The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging. In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Imagin…
The Enlightenment Cyborg
Reviewed by: The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660–1830 Michael Sappol Allison Muri. The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660–1830. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. ix + 308 pp. Ill. $60.00, £40.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8020-8850-3; ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8850-5). “[A]n exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated h…
The Odd Case of Charles Knowlton
In early-nineteenth-century America, anatomical narrative was crucial to the acquisition and performance of medical identity. Dissecting the dead, robbing graves, making and exhibiting “anatomical preparations,” and joking with bodies and body parts all served to affirm membership in the cult of medical knowledge. So did telling stories about such things. Through an examination of the autobiography of Charles Knowlton (1800–1850), a rural physici…
American Abyss
Reviewed by: American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry Michael Sappol Daniel E. Bender. American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. x + 329 pp. Ill. $39.95, £26.95 (978-0-8014-4598-9). In the decades following the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, American writers and activists gave nearly every aspect of the human condition an …
Elizabeth Stephens, Anatomy as Spectacle
Thomas W. Laqueur. The Work of the Dead
Way back in 1983, in the very first issue of Representations, Thomas Laqueur published his first article on the cultural history of “Bodies, Death, and Pauper Funerals.”1 Since then he’s been busy: promoting “the body” as an academic field and term de rigueur (The Making of the Modern Body, 1987), arguing the history of the anatomical gendering of the human body (Making Sex, 1992), and the history of masturbation (Solitary Sex, 2003). But all the…
Domenico Bertoloni Meli. Visualizing Disease
There is a long and distinguished tradition of scholarship on the history of anatomical illustration, Domenico Bertoloni Meli rightly observes, but somehow scholars have scanted what is perhaps an even larger category of medical image production—pathological illustration. Visualizing Disease, erudite, profusely illustrated, richly documented, begins to rectify that omission. Meli starts with the early modern origins of what came to be designated …
Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth and Jennifer Wallis, Anxious Times
On the dustjacket, a cartoon from an 1890 issue of Punch shows: crowds, traffic, market-stalls, telegraph wires, belching smokestacks and a riot of garish commercial signage. Billboards, hot-air balloons and a carnivalesque assortment of outsized words and objects—‘sky-signs of the times’—tout hats, soap, eye-glasses, cigars, music halls, coffee, gloves, spirits, collars, lozenges, lunches, pipes, carpets, ladies’ boots, etc. All choreographed to…
Imagining Chinese Medicine
Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the book review forum. For our launch of this new format, we have invited an extended review of a recently published landmark volume in our field and a response to the review from the volume editors
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