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In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical collections may seem strange, and undeniably have a morbid aesthetic, yet are neither curiosities nor art. As this book deals with issues related to the keeping and displaying of historical human remains, it is highly relevant for material culture and museum studies, cultural history, the history of scientific collections and the history of medicine alike. Unlike existing literature on historical anatomical collections, this book takes the objects in the collections as its starting point, instead of the people that created them.

Anatomical museums --- Human anatomy --- Human body --- Material culture --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Anatomy, Human --- Anatomy --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Science museums --- History --- Methodology --- Social aspects --- Museums --- 378.4 <492 LEIDEN> --- 378.4 <492 LEIDEN> Universiteiten--Nederland--LEIDEN --- Universiteiten--Nederland--LEIDEN --- Leiden (Netherlands) --- Intellectual life --- Leyde (Netherlands) --- Leyden (Netherlands) --- Lugd. Bat. (Netherlands) --- Lugdunum Batavorum (Netherlands) --- Leyden

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As the world struggles to come to grips with the rise of new populisms that call into question the legitimacy of technocratic expertise, the historical understanding of the processes by which the characteristically modern modes of meaning-making came into existence has never been so important. Politically-motivated attacks on ‘science’ are difficult to counter in a climate of generalised scepticism for all forms of authority, but cultural historians have an important part to play by offering an adequate historical framing for the terms of the debate. The origins of modernity are routinely associated with the empirical attitudes of the ‘scientific revolution’ and the liberal rationalism of the Enlightenment; but this story tends to be studied either conceptually by historians of science, or politically by cultural historians. For it to make sense as the backdrop to modern debates, the political and epistemological dimensions of the emergence of modernity need to be put more firmly into contact with one another. This book attempts to do so by focusing on the theme of the emergence of disciplinarity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Philosophy --- pensée et culture de l’époque moderne --- Lumières --- science et littérature --- disciplinarité --- épistémologie --- Early modern culture --- Enlightenment culture --- science and literature --- disciplinarity --- epistemology