Working With Diagrams

Lukas Engelmann is a Chancellor's Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His research is concerned with the history of epidemiological reasoning in the twentieth century, for which he received an ERC Starting Grant in 2020.Caroline Humphrey was Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology at the University of Cambridge who has worked in Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal, and Ukraine. Recent publications include A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism, (Chicago, 2013) and On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border (Harvard, 2021).Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Diagrams beyond Mere ToolsLukas Englemann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos LynterisChapter 1. Revisiting Sigmund Freud's Diagrams of the MindRo SpankieChapter 2. Dis/working with Diagrams: How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case)Nurit Bird-DavidChapter 3. On Visual Coherence and Visual Excess: Writing, Diagrams, and Anthropological FormMatei CandeaChapter 4. Configurations of Plague: Spatial Diagrams in Early EpidemiologyLukas EngelmannChapter 5. A Nomadic Diagram: Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape and AnthropologyCaroline HumphreyAfterword: Abstraction and Schematization in the Repeated Copying of DesignsPhilip SteadmanConclusion: The Work of DiagramsLukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos LynterisIndex

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