Read Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body Online
Authors: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
deceptions 213–14
and dress 213
the female form 45, 55, 81, 204, 206–7, 231–2
and language 213
the male form 8, 55, 204
reassignment 207–9, 214
sex
see
sex
Gender Recognition Act 209
General Electric 122
genitals xxii, 80, 81–2, 200, 203–7, 210, 212–13, 253–5
geographical metaphors of the human body xxiii–xxiv, 19–22
gestures 190–94, 193
Getty III, J. Paul 160
Gilbert and Sullivan: Princess Ida 229
Giotto 132
Gladstone, William 230
Glaser, Milton 133
glial cells 113
God 51, 89, 130, 142, 198, 216, 217
Godiva, Lady 230, 236
Gogol, Nikolai
Dead Souls
88
The Nose
xxii, 87–8, 89
Gombrich, Ernst 205
Gordon, J. E.: Structures 189
Gräfenberg, Ernst 82
Grande Bouffe, La (Ferreri) 185, 186
Gray, Effie 231
Gray, Henry 77–80
Gray’s Anatomy 54, 78, 79–80, 81, 127
Great Maiden’s Blush 226
Greene, Joshua 124
Gregory, Richard 173–4
Griffith-Cima, Linda 163
Grimaldi, Joseph 83
Grimm, Brothers: ‘The Frog Prince’ 243
Grossmann, Marcel 228
Guanyin 243
Guerre, Martin 106–7
Guilder, Rose 32
gurgitators 186
hair 93–5, 200
pubic 93, 132, 203, 231
Haldane, J. B. S. 53–4, 60, 112
Hallam, Clint 110
Hancock, Tony 147
hands 187–202
and counting systems 194
hand gestures 190–94,
193
palm-reading 196
pointing 190–91
preferment 197–200
see also
fingers; thumbs
Hapshepsut 44–5
Haraway, Donna 239
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
171–2
The Woodlanders
95
Hare, Augustus 179
Hare, William 74, 75
Harvey, Marcus xxii–xxiii
Harvey, Thomas 112, 113
Harvey, William 21, 72–3, 129–30, 141–2
De Motu Cordis
72, 127, 141
head 83–95
phrenology 116–18, 119
shrunken heads (
tsantsas
) 85–6
see also
face; skull
hearing 157–8, 169
loss 235
Hearst, William Randolph 50
heart 69, 71–2, 73, 80, 127–33, 200
in art and drawings 132
artificial 250
and brain 130–31
chambers 71, 128
Glaser’s
logo 133
in literature 127–8, 132
Sacred Heart 132
shape 132, 133
transplants 137, 252–3
valves 14, 73, 129, 253
Helmholtz resonators 56
Henry VIII 44–5, 72, 191
Hepper, Peter 197
heredity
and blood 144
and eye colour 171
hermaphrodites 210–11
Hermaphroditos 210–11
Herschel, William 31
hieroglyphics 132
Hindley, Myra xxii–xxiii
Hindu tradition 20, 28–9, 216, 243
Hippocrates 118–19
Hippocratic oath 137, 235
Hockney, David 175
Hogarth, William 29–30
holotypes 33–4
Homer: Odyssey 251
homo clausus 41, 45, 46, 235, 239
homosexuals 145, 212
hormones 210, 211–12
hormone treatment 208, 212
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables 95
human form
in art and drawings 1–15, 45, 65, 203–7, 230, 232–3, 235–6
beauty of
see
beauty
embryonic development 200–201, 210
feminine form 45, 55, 81, 204, 206–7, 231–2
geographical metaphors xxiii–xxiv, 19–22
ideal proportions of xxiv, 24–30, 45, 54, 81
idioms based on parts of the body 91–3
in literature 22–3
male form 8, 55, 204
naked
see
nudity
as a picture of the human soul 37
pudica pose 204, 206, 230
in sculpture 24
sexual
see
sex
structural engineering view of the body 221
Visible Human Project 34–7
wax models 44, 81
Hume, David 107–8, 216–17
humours, four 69, 90, 142, 151–2, 226
Hunter, John 76–7, 81
Hunter, William 75–7
Huxley, Aldous: After Many a Summer 255
hydraulic press 129
hydroxyapatite 52
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 73, 119
Identikit 104
identity xxiv–xxv, 105–8, 170
sexual 208–14
iliopsoas 246
immortality 15, 34, 261–2
biological 259
immortalists 256, 259, 264
incus 54
index finger 190–91, 195, 196–7
Inouye, Tatsuji 119
International Federation of Competitive Eating 185–6
intestines 12
Io 251
Iphis 211
Ireland, Colin 104
iris 170
Ishiguro, Hiroshi 250
islands xxiii–xxiv
Jackson, Chevalier 180
Jacobs, Lou 83
Jamelia 95
Jamieson, George, later April Ashley 207–9
Janá
č
ek, Leos 260, 261
Jenkins, Robert 159–60, 163
Jernigan, Joseph Paul 35
Jesus Christ
on the Cross 236
face of 101
footprints 216
healing Malchus’s ear 159
Joan, Pope 213
Jolly Roger 51
Joy of Cooking, The 179
Judaism 142
jumping 220, 222, 259
Kafka, Franz 143
Kandinsky, Wassily 175
Kaufmann, Hans 161
Keats, John 143
‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ 94
Kemp, Martin 80
Kerridge, Tobie 62
Kevorkian, Jack, ‘Dr Death’ 149–50
kidneys 134–40
transplants 136–7
Kimomeni Mountain 19
Kline, Michelle 138
Kneller, Godfrey 114
Knox, Robert 74–5
Koning, Petrus 44
Krantz, Judith: Princess Daisy 171
kuru 181–2
Lakshmi 243
Langlois, Judith 100