The clinical eye: Charcot and the image conformation in the prodution of the photographic iconography of Salpêtriére

• Grant number: 17/26354-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2018
• End date: October 04, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Heloísa André Pontes
• Grantee: Ana Carolina Verdicchio Rodegher
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/14693-4 - On images and knowledge: the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière and the visuality in the nineteenth century, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

A change at the paradigm of visuality shuffled the borders between the science and the art in the nineteenth century, as can be seen in the case of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). Neurologist that severely exercised the clinical practice - consolidated as the new model of the modern medicine - he worked with hysteria, disease historically associated as a woman's disease. His study resulted in the production of the photographic iconography of Salpêtriére, work available online at the archive "Charcot Digital Fund" (maintained by University Pierre and Marie Curie). This will be the main source in the investigation from this research, through the analysis of its images. The project, unfolding of two scientific initiations and a monograph, has a double objective: 1-) to understand how medicine, gender and the photography relates with each other in the production of the iconography; 2-) to investigate why this work, created in the scientific field and with scientific purposes was associated with art. Therefore it will be necessary to assert the emergence of clinical practice and how this new model of medicine is related to the image production; to find out how was the use of photography in the medical field and understand with which practices and discourses the production of these images was linked; demonstrate how medical photography has reiterated hysteria as a women's disease and, lastly, understand what elements (próprio = own? e no plural?) the context of the nineteenth century allowed the sharing of a symbolic universe between science and art, ensuring the iconography's ambiguous character between these areas. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

RODEGHER, Ana Carolina Verdicchio. The clinical eye: Charcot and the conformation of the image in Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. 2021. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.