Ontologies and Natures

Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

In Ontologies and Natures: Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez argues that visual culture offers insights into how societies perceive the role of nature in pursuits to cure and care for the human body. By using a set of visual surfaces and artefacts as entry points the book sheds light on ideas about nature as a healing source.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-08
Mått:157 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666909494

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Miljömedicin inom Medicin
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez is a Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven. He is also a visiting scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge and Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (Leibniz Association).

Recensioner i media

Conceptions and practices of health enact cultural understandings of nature as much as they reflect the state of our knowledges of the natural world and our place within it. By showing how these knowledges are asserted, materialized, and performed through visual representations, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez brings forth the social and cultural encounters, tensions, hierarchies, and exclusions that underscore universalist discourses of health, suggesting that epistemic inclusivity may better be approached by embracing nature as an essentially unstable object of human knowledge.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Images of NatureChapter 1. Visual HealingChapter 2. Animated EpistemologiesPart II: Shapes of NatureChapter 3. Barcoded PharmacopeiasChapter 4. Gendered Epistemic ArtefactsPart III: Sites of NatureChapter 5. Topological PanaceasChapter 6. Sensorial Interfaces