{"product_id":"violence-and-the-genesis-of-rose-marie-san-juan-9780271093352","title":"Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image","description":"\u003cp\u003eNothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dissected while still hanging from the gallows. In this highly original book, Rose Marie San Juan confronts the question of violence in the making of the early modern anatomical image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging the ways in which power operated in early modern anatomical images in Europe and, to a lesser extent, its colonies, San Juan examines literal violence upon bodies in a range of civic, religious, pedagogical, and \"exploratory\" contexts. She then works through the question of how bodies were thought to be constituted--systemic or piecemeal, singular or collective--and how gender determines this question of constitution. In confronting the issue of violence in the making of the anatomical image, San Juan explores not only how violence transformed the body into a powerful and troubling double but also how this kind of body permeated attempts to produce knowledge about the world at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative and challenging, this book will be of significant interest to scholars across fields in early modern studies, including art history and visual culture, science, and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rose Marie San Juan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271093358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271093352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Rose Marie San Juan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077876609279,"sku":"9780271093352","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af2b1046-4e2b-4d63-bad1-534e8d0684c6.jpg?v=1685472264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/violence-and-the-genesis-of-rose-marie-san-juan-9780271093352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}