Visualizing Disease by Domenico Bertoloni Meli
The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations
A historical study of how medical practitioners visualized disease from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, tracing collaborations among physicians, artists, and printers to produce atlases and case illustrations of lesions, organs, and skin conditions. It examines changing techniques and media—from engraving to lithography and color—along with conventions of realism, selectivity, and aesthetics, and the institutional contexts of hospitals, museums, and teaching. Ultimately, it shows that images did not merely document pathology but actively shaped diagnostic categories, pedagogy, and the authority of medical knowledge.
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