Medical
Images, Public Imaginaries and the Exposed Body
8
giugno 2022
Badoer,
aula Tafuri
ore 11
seminar by Silvia Casini -University of Aberdeen
a cura di Angela Vettese e Camilla Salvaneschi
per l’area dottorale Arti Visive, Performative e Moda
codice MS Teams:
1j3763o
ciclo di incontri “The Exposed Body”
Medical images and illustrations
are important in medical research, clinical practice, and public communication.
Within the doctor-patient encounter, the presence of the medical image often
signifies the absence of the body. But do we have the tools for grasping what
medical images expose and hide from view? This seminar employs the tools and
insights of the humanities to explore questions such as: What makes medical
images so important? What roles do they play? How do images depict what they
are about? How are images produced and why does it matter? How do medical
images travel between research communities and the public permeating public
imaginaries? What is the role of artists?
Silvia Casini is
Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen where she
teaches courses to students in the humanities and in medicine. Her work is
situated at the crossroad of visual culture, cinema, science studies, and the
medical humanities. Her research is featured in journals such as
Configurations, Leonardo, Contemporary Aesthetics, Nuncius Journal of the
Material and Visual History of Science, The Senses and Society. She published
two monographs: Giving Bodies back to Data (The MIT Press 2021) and, in
Italian, ll Ritratto-Scansione (Mimesis 2016). She is currently co-editing a
special number on visual culture, trauma and the medical humanities for the
film and media studies journal Cinéma & Cie.