Read Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body Online
Authors: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Carroll, Lewis (C. L. Dodgson)
Alice in Wonderland
29
Through the Looking-glass
201
Carter, Henry Vandyke 78–80
Catherine the Great 81
Catts, Oron 164
Cervantes, Miguel de 93
Charles II 72
Chicago Sun Times 206
chloroform 79
choice, and the brain 123–4
cholerics 151
Christianity 142–3
chromosomes 209–10
Clark, Kenneth 229–30
Clarke, Alex 109
Cleopatra 99
clitoris 81–2
Clown Egg Register, Holy Trinity, Dalston 83
coccyx 53
cochlea 157
Cohen, Ben 155
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette): Sido 226
Colombo, Realdo 71–2, 81
Colossus of Constantine 224–5
Combe, George 116
competitive eating 185–6
composite photography 97–9, 100
computer images 100, 101–2, 104
consciousness 83, 85, 107–8, 229
Cope, Edward Drinker 34
coprolites 178
Coren, Stanley 199–200
cosmetic surgery 46, 110–11, 163, 239
Cossey, Barry, later Carolyn 210
counting systems 194
cranioscopy 114–15
creativity, and the brain 123, 124–5
Cromwell, Oliver 155
head 84–5
Crooke, Helkiah: Microcosmographia 80, 127, 190
Cross-Modal Research Laboratory, Oxford 172
Cruikshank, George 117, 204
Cuisse de Nymphe/Cuisse de Nymphe Emue 226
Cundy, Jody 244–7
cupping 142
Cursor Mundi 39
cycling 244–8
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien 90
dance 220–23
danse macabre 51
d’Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux 81
Darwin, Charles 32, 96–7, 228–9
Davis, Natalie Zemon 107
de Grey, Aubrey 256–60, 261
dead bodies see cadavers
death 256, 258
and life expectancy 255–61
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe 215, 216, 217
Delacroix, Eugène: Liberty Leading the People 236
denary counting 194
dentistry 76
Descartes, René 21, 73, 119, 165, 168–9, 189
Cartesian body-as-machine 73, 263
Dioptrique
168
the eye 165–7,
166
, 168–9
the soul 168
Diamond, Marian 113
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
195
A Christmas Carol
101
diet 178–86
digestion 180–81
digitus annularis 195
digitus auricularis 195
digitus impudicus/medicus 195
Dinoire, Isabelle 108
Dionysus 55
DNA 201, 257
Dolet, Etienne 127
Don Juan legend 243–4
Donne, John xxiv, 6, 23, 149, 207
donors
animal ‘donors’ 252–3
blood 145–9
body/organ 9, 109–10, 136, 138–9
face 109–10
dopamine 152
Doryphoros (Polykleitos) 24
Douglas, Mary 143–4
dress 213
du Camp, Maxime 23
Dürer, Albrecht 153
Ear on Arm 164
ears 103, 153–64, 235
and ability to distinguish pitch 157–8
in art 153–7, 159, 161–2, 164
cochlea 157
Darwin’s point 163
grafted 163, 164
iconicity of 163
severed 159–61, 162
War of Jenkins’ Ear 159–60
eating 178–86
Ecker, Alexander 196
Eco, Umberto 215
Edison, Thomas 50, 118, 122
Edwards, Rachel 101–2
Efit system 104
eggs 209–10, 259
Egyptian hieroglyphics 132
Eiberg, Hans 171
Einstein, Albert 112, 228
electron spin 201–2
Elias, Norbert 41, 235
Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda 101
Elizabeth I xxii, 42, 102
embryonic development 200–201, 210
en pointe position 221
endocrinology 152
endorphins 152
Éon de Beaumont, Charles, Chevalier d’ 213–14
Epictetus 20
eroticism 50, 207, 220, 235–6
Essay Concerning the Infinite Wisdom of God, Manifested in the Contrivance and Structure of the Skin 236–7
ethnicity 237
eugenics 97–9
eunuchs 253–4
Eustachi, Bartolomeo 20
Eustachian tube 20
Eve (biblical) 55–6, 90, 156, 203, 236
Eve (Visible Human Project) 36
Evo-fit system 104
Extra Ear ¼ Scale 164
eyes 102–3, 165–77
colour 170–72
Descartes 165–77,
166
and facial recognition 103, 233
and identity 170
iris 170
and optical refraction 167
pupils 167
and sight 167–9, 172–4
and the soul 170
face 96–111
donors 109–10
facial recognition 102–8, 233
transplants 109–11
Faint, Mattie 83
Fallopian tubes 20
Falloppio, Gabriele 20, 70, 81
Fame 243
Fantastic Voyage xxiii
fat 11, 44–8, 231
fatty acids 46
feet 215–25
and ballet 220–23
foot binding 219
footprints 215–19
and sport 220
taboos concerning 219
Ferreri, Marco: La Grande Bouffe 185, 186
fig leaves 203, 204, 207
Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) 21
fingerprinting 32
fingers 187–8, 194–5, 196–7
index to ring finger ratio 196–7
signs 190–91, 192–4
Fischer, Otto 57
Flavel, John 128
quotation 127
flesh 38–48
art, skin tone and 226–7
eating human flesh 181–3
mortification 239
flexor digitorum profundis 189
flexor digitorum superficialis 188
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) 123–6
food 178–86
footprints 215–19
For Your Eyes Only 210
Fore people, Papua New Guinea 181–2
fossils 178
footprints 217–19
Frankenstein syndrome 138
French Assembly 198
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) 123–6
‘G spot’ 82
Gachet, Paul 161
Gaia theory 20
gait 57–8
Galen of Pergamon 45, 69, 80, 119, 128, 150
Galileo Galilei 165
Gall, Franz Joseph 114–16
twenty-seven brain ‘organs’ 115,
115
Galton, Francis 31–3, 96–9, 98, 102–3, 170–71
gastronomy 178–86
Gates, Stefan 47
Gauguin, Paul 161
gays 145, 212
Geminoid robots 250
gender
and cultural self-definition 212–13