The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences

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Contents Preface vii Introduction: Visual Lessons and the Life Sciences 1 nancy anderson and michael r. dietrich 1. Trained Judgment, Intervention, and the Biological Gaze: 14 How Charles Sedgwick Minot Saw Senescence mara mills 2. Facing Animals in the Laboratory: Lessons of Nineteenth- 44 Century Medical School Microscopy Manuals nancy anderson 3. Photography and Medical Observation 68 scott curtis 4. Cinematography without Film: Architectures and 94 Technologies of Visual Instruction in Biology around 1900 henning schmidgen 5. Cinema as Universal Language of Health Education: 121 Translating Science in Unhooking the Hookworm (1920) kirsten ostherr 6. Screening Science: Pedagogy and Practice in William 141 Dieterle’s Film Biographies of Scientists t. hugh crawford 7. Optical Constancy, Discontinuity, and Nondiscontinuity 162 in the Eameses’ Rough Sketch michael j. golec 8. Educating the High-Speed Eye: Harold E. Edgerton’s 186 Early Visual Conventions richard l. kremer 9. On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of 213 Developmental Biology sabine brauckmann 10. Form and Function: A Semiotic Analysis of Figures 235 in Biology Textbooks laura perini 11. Neuroimages, Pedagogy, and Society 255 adina l. roskies 12. The Anatomy of a Surgical Simulation: The Mutual 277 Articulation of Bodies in and through the Machine rachel prentice Contributors 311 Index 315 ...