Afterlife of Images Heinrich Ari Larissa
Afterlife of Images Heinrich Ari Larissa In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of…
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Afterlife of Images Heinrich Ari Larissa
In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with the American medical missionary Peter Parker in the creation of portraits of Chinese patients with disfiguring pathologies, rendered both before and after surgery. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese.
Within China, the visual idiom that the paintings established influenced the development of medical photography. Europeans saw those portraits as evidence of Western medical prowess. In The Afterlife of Images, Ari Larissa Heinrich investigates the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses that linked ideas about
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