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DESCRIPTION:Mechthild Fend\, University College London  Body to Body: The D
 ermatological Wax Moulage as Indexical ImageThe lecture will focus on a ve
 ry particular kind of medical imagery: dermatological wax moulages\, casts
  taken from the body of people infected with diseases of the skin to docum
 ent their condition. The talk will explore the ways in which these images 
 – made by contagion in the most literal sense – engage with the body of th
 e sick. It will query what kind of images these medical wax casts actually
  are and why they were so popular as a medium of dermatological visualisat
 ion from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1960s. The talk wi
 ll explore the nature of these impressions based on the contact between th
 e somatic symptom and the plaster which was used to make the moulds from w
 hich the wax casts were then taken.  While much of the diagnostic utility 
 of the dermatological casts relies on the re-working and colouring of the 
 moulages by the wax modeller\, their claim for truth and authenticity is b
 ased on their quality as mechanically produced images. This links them str
 ucturally to photography\, and the latter medium was indeed introduced int
 o dermatology at the same time as the wax moulages. This is particularly s
 triking the case of the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris (the first clinic ded
 icated entirely to the treatment of skin diseases): Alfred Hardy and A. de
  Montméja published their Clinique photographique de L'hôpital Saint-Louis
  published in 1868 and Jules Baretta\, hired as a mouleur for the hospital
  in 1863\, finished his first moulage in 1867. I will discuss the preferen
 ce for these mechanically produced images in relation to Daston and Galiso
 n’s notion of “Images of Objectivity”. At the same time\, I would like to 
 stress the traditions of an animist believe in the lifelikeness of images 
 at work in both of these media and discuss the similarity between the disp
 lay of the wax moulages at the Musée des Moulages at the Hôpital Saint-Lou
 is and religious votives. In this respect I would like to argue\, adapting
  Bruno Latour\, that these images have never been entirely modern.
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series | Mechthild Fend | 'Body to Body: The Dermatological
  Wax Moulage as Indexical Image'
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