The Material Turn in the History of Life Science

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ID12880869
AuthorsA Guerrini (0000-0003-0181-229X, Oregon State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume13
Issue7
Pages469-480
Publication date2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLiterature Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/lic3.12325
OpenAlexW2472223801
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited56

The “material turn” or the history of things has become a prominent focus in the history of life science of the long eighteenth century. The reassessment of eighteenth‐century science since the 1990s has given particular prominence to medicine and the life sciences. Eighteenth‐century anatomists and naturalists studied, collected, imitated, and represented many kinds of natural things, from the human body to trees. This article considers a variety of new approaches to material culture, museums, and collecting among historians of science since 2000, focusing on natural history and anatomy. The historiography of objects invokes a sensory history of seeing and touching, and a global history of movement across time, place, and culture

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Historiography · History of science · Human body · Human culture · Life history · Literature · Movement (music · Natural (archaeology · Natural history · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Medicine · Philosophy · Anatomy · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology

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