The Ghastly Kitchen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4392897 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Guerrini (0000-0003-0181-229X, Oregon State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-97 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0073-2753 • E-ISSN: 1753-8564 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0073275315617769 |
| OpenAlex | W2333966688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 8 |
The metaphor of "the ghastly kitchen" of life science research, the places that, said the nineteenth-century physiologist Claude Bernard, stirred "the fetid and throbbing ground of life," is well known. In the seventeenth century, the kitchen, and particularly the scullery, was the site of the slaughter, butchery, and dismemberment by carving of a variety of animals. The tools and techniques employed in these activities overlapped considerably with those of animal and human dissection. Dissection often took place in residences and the kitchen was the most likely place for this activity. This challenges historians' identification of the kitchen as an exclusively female realm. The preparation of food and medicines occurred in tandem with experimental natural philosophy, sharing tools as well as the sensory apparatus of cooking, including tasting and smelling
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biology · Carving · Environmental ethics · Identification (biology) · Natural (archaeology) · Realm · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Computer Science · Ecology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy
Domesticities and the Sciences
Moscas y redes
Food, Thrift, and Experiment in Early Modern England
The Garden, the Library, the Body, and the Table
Introduction to “Working at the Margins
Retrospectives
Denis Papin's digester and its eighteenth-century European circulation
A Natural History of the Kitchen
On the Virtues of Historical Entomophagy
Science in the Church
The Banquet
Political Post-mortems and Morbid Anatomy in Seventeenth-century England
A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698
Harvey's Animals
The Mind Is Its Own Place
The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in Seventeenth-Century England
The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England
Managing an Experimental Household
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |