IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1242: Expressive Bodies: Visible Illness, Visible Health, I

Sponsor:	'Hermeneutics of the Visible Body: Conceptualisations & Practices in Medieval Medicine in the Latin Tradition'
Organiser:	Montserrat Cabré i Pairet, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria
Moderator/Chair:	Anna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid
Paper 1242-a	Attaining a Healthy Face Using Medical Handbooks in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Montserrat Cabré i Pairet, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria Index terms: Gender Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science
Paper 1242-b	The Intelligibility of the Invisible: Exploring the Physicality of Bodily Qualities in the Medieval Brain (Language: English) Fernando Salmón Muñiz, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science
Paper 1242-c	Modesty and Malady: Showing and Hiding the Ailed Breast (Language: English) Alba Lara Granero, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine, Religious Life
Abstract	These sessions will explore, from a variety of disciplines, the visibility of some 'actions of the body', their relevance in medieval cultures, and how they were interpreted and acted upon by a variety of agents. From the presence or absence of ulcers, buboes, or facial hair to the appearance of the skin or the shape of the genitals, bodily surfaces played a central role in medical and religious understandings of the body and aspects of social life.