Making Sense of Medicine

John Nott is an economic and medical historian and a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked as part of the ‘Making Clinical Sense’ project at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.Anna Harris is associate professor of anthropology and science and technology studies at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Her work concerns issues of learning, sensing (and other bodily practices) and the contemporary/historical role of technologies in medicine. She leads the European Research Council funded project ‘Making Clinical Sense.’

'A commendable feature of the collection’s exploration is the bringing together of contributions from historians, anthropologists, artists and curators, educators, surgeons and pathologists. In doing so, the collection offers interdisciplinary investigations and equips the reader with a thoughtful and critical understanding of educative technologies. [...] Overall, the collection is meticulously researched and well-written. It is a rewarding book as it is creative and experimental in its approach, and engages with new and familiar topics from interdisciplinary perspectives. The collection will certainly be a key text in inviting and guiding researchers to study the material culture of medicine’s objects of teaching.'

• Introduction: What Matters in Medical Education? – John Nott and Anna HarrisARCHITECTURE / Designing a Discipline: Architecture for Pathology in the Interwar Period –  Annmarie AdamsART / Objectivity, Art and Medical Images – Sally WyattBALLOONS / Lessons from a Balloon – Christine den Harder and Anna HarrisCADAVERS / The Geography of the Dead and the Movement of the Living: Kinetic Consciousness and the Limits of the Cadaver – Rachel PrenticeCHALKBOARDS / Anatomy of the Chalkboard – Rachel Vaden AllisonCIGARETTE PAPERS / The Cigarette Paper, the Embroiderer, and the Gendered Craft of Vascular Surgery – Paul CraddockCIRCULATION / Circulated Concepts, Images and Objects – Harro van LenteDISSECTING ROOMS / ‘The Lady Anatomist’: Fragmented Bodies, Photographic Assemblage and the ‘Art’ of Dissection at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1895–98 – Jessica M. DandonaFILM / ‘See For Yourself’: Autopsy Film as Audio-Visual Mediation of Learning Experiences, c.1928–1962 – Christian Bonah and Joel DanetFILM / ‘Now We Are Going to Look at a Piece of Film’: Projecting Medicine in Twentieth Century Medical Education – Angela SawardGARDENS / Groundwork for Planetary Health: Reimagining Gardens in Medical Education – Stacey Langwick and Mary MoshaGLOVES / The Context of Touch: Gloves and the Pelvic Exam – Kelly UndermanHANDBOOKS / Chinese Medical Illustrations and Communist Materialism, 1950-1966 – Lan LiHEARTS / The Heart of the Simulated Matter: Interprofessional Training Practices of Clinical Care – Ivana GuarrasiILLUSTRATIONS / Performed with Care: Enacting Accuracy in Medical Illustration – Drew Danielle BelskyILLUSTRATIONS / Material Images: Flesh on Paper in Twentieth-Century Surgical Drawing – Harriet PalfreymanILLUSTRATIONS / The Radford Collection: Exploring and Experiencing the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Midwifery Lecture – Rebecca WhiteleyLABOUR / Invisible Work – Sally WyattMICROSCOPES / The Virtual Microscope: Tracing Knowledge of Human Microstructure Through Digital Images – R. Claire Aland, Nicole Shepherd, Belinda Swyny and Mary-Louise Roy ManchadiMUSEUMS / The Pathology Museum at Korle Bu – Robert Kumoji and John NottNURSERVERS / The Nurserver – David TheodorePHOTOGRAPHS / Typologies of Fatness: Constitutional Photography in Western Medicine, c.1930-60 – Anne Katrine Kleberg HansenPLACE, AND AFFECT / Matters of Place and Affect – Rachel Vaden Allison and John NottPROPS / Props in Breaking Bad News Simulation – Kaisu Koski and Kirsten OstherrRADIOGRAPHS / Lasers, Screens and Models: The Material Assemblages of Learning Pattern Recognition in Radiography Education – Peter D. WinterSIMULATIONS / Simulations in Health Professions Education – Andrea WojcikSKULLS / Medical Museums, Materiality, and the Traumatic Brain Injury of Phineas Gage – Denielle Elliott with Dominic HallSTETHOSCOPES / This Thing, A Stethoscope – Claire WendlandTEXTILES / Materialities of Surgery: Learning Through Thread – Roger Kneebone and Fleur OakesULTRASOUNDS / Developing Ultrasound: Knowledge Dissemination and Technological Change, 1945-1980 – Jakob LehneWOUNDS / The Fake Wound: Thinking Through Materials in Osce Simulations – Andrea Wojcik, Victor Mogre, Anthony Amalba, Celia Yamile Rodriguez and Francis A. AbantangaZEBRAS / Zebras, not Horses: On Limits and Margins of Biomedical Knowledge – Candida F. Sanchez BurmesterNotes on ContributorsIndex