Medical instruments in museums: Immediate impressions and historical meanings
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Medical instruments in museums : Immediate impressions and historical meanings. / Söderqvist, Thomas; Arnold, Ken.
I: Isis, Bind 102, Nr. 4, 2011, s. 718-729.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Medical instruments in museums
T2 - Immediate impressions and historical meanings
AU - Söderqvist, Thomas
AU - Arnold, Ken
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This essay proposes that our understanding of medical instruments might benefit from adding a more forthright concern with their immediate presence to the current historical focus on simply decoding their meanings and context. This approach is applied to the intriguingly tricky question of what actually is meant by a "medical instrument." It is suggested that a pragmatic part of the answer might lie simply in reconsidering the holdings of medical museums, where the significance of the physical actuality of instruments comes readily to hand.
AB - This essay proposes that our understanding of medical instruments might benefit from adding a more forthright concern with their immediate presence to the current historical focus on simply decoding their meanings and context. This approach is applied to the intriguingly tricky question of what actually is meant by a "medical instrument." It is suggested that a pragmatic part of the answer might lie simply in reconsidering the holdings of medical museums, where the significance of the physical actuality of instruments comes readily to hand.
U2 - 10.1086/663613
DO - 10.1086/663613
M3 - Journal article
VL - 102
SP - 718
EP - 729
JO - Isis
JF - Isis
SN - 0021-1753
IS - 4
ER -
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