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Radiographic atlas of skeletal development of the hand and wrist
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ISBN: 0804703981 9780804703987 Year: 1959 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university

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La main de Dieu
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ISBN: 3161467159 9783161467158 Year: 1997 Volume: 94 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck


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Spongiaires : anatomie, physiologie, systématique, écologie
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ISBN: 2225370044 9782225370045 Year: 1973 Volume: 3/1 Publisher: Paris : Masson,

Senses of touch : human dignity and deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin
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ISSN: 05856914 ISBN: 9004111751 9004477489 9789004111752 9789004477483 Year: 1998 Volume: 71 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative ideal, as signified by the sense of sight, to an active reality, as signified by the sense of touch. From posture to piety, from manicure to magic, the book discovers touch in a critical period of its historical development, in anatomy and society. It features new interpretations of two landmarks of western civilization: Michelangelo's fresco of the Creation of Adam and Calvin's doctrine of election. It also accords special attention to the typing of women as sensual creatures by using their hands as a heuristic. Its alternative interpretations explore in theory and in practice the sensuality, the creativity, and the plain utility of hands, thus integrating biology and culture.

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