CLARK C. Z., CLARK, O., The Remarkables. Endocrine Abnormalities in Art.

Abstract

  University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, 2011 (series: Perspectives in medical Humanities).   - In many ways, this is a remarkable book. While placing itself in a rather overexplored field – the relationship between art and medicine and science, or, artistic and figurative representations of illnesses and maladies – it manages to keep abreast from the most obvious pitfalls of the genre. In fact, while avoiding some of the jargon and many of the niceties of art and cultural historians’ disciplinary discussions, it provides a very useful confrontation between medical history, in its ‘internalist’ sense, and accurate analysis of paintings [...]