What
does
look
like?
Who
taught you to recognize
?
External
bleeding
Darkened,
greenish complection
Discolored
surface lesions
diagnosis
How
do visible changes on the outside of the body come to be read as signs which
indicate
Has
always
been read in the same way
What
can a history of
tell
us about our own modern process of interpretting bodily signs
"For
us, the human body defines, by natural right, the space of origin and of distribution
of disease: a space whose lines, volumes, surfaces, and routes are laid down,
in accordance with a now familiar geometry, by the anatomical atlas. But this
order of the solid, visible body is only one way--in all likelihood neither
the first nor the most fundamental--in which one spatializes disease. There
have been, and will be, other distributions of illness." (p. 3)
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