Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntoductionAxel Fliethmann and Christiane WellerPART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy LessonsJill Redner2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern EuropeAxel Fliethmann3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by WomenElizabeth Stephens4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century SchnepfenthalHeikki LempaPART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of EmotionCorinna Wagner6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical PortraitureJoanna Madloch7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical PortraitureCarolyn Lau8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxietystef lenkPART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900Claudia Stein10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar RepublicMichael Hau11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural ImaginationBirgit Lang12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art CollectionsChristiane Weller13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as HorrorBarry MurnaneBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects

Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntoductionAxel Fliethmann and Christiane WellerPART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy LessonsJill Redner2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern EuropeAxel Fliethmann3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by WomenElizabeth Stephens4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century SchnepfenthalHeikki LempaPART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of EmotionCorinna Wagner6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical PortraitureJoanna Madloch7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical PortraitureCarolyn Lau8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxietystef lenkPART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900Claudia Stein10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar RepublicMichael Hau11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural ImaginationBirgit Lang12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art CollectionsChristiane Weller13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as HorrorBarry MurnaneBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects

Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntoductionAxel Fliethmann and Christiane WellerPART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy LessonsJill Redner2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern EuropeAxel Fliethmann3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by WomenElizabeth Stephens4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century SchnepfenthalHeikki LempaPART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of EmotionCorinna Wagner6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical PortraitureJoanna Madloch7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical PortraitureCarolyn Lau8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxietystef lenkPART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900Claudia Stein10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar RepublicMichael Hau11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural ImaginationBirgit Lang12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art CollectionsChristiane Weller13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as HorrorBarry MurnaneBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects