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Intro
Series Editors' Preface
Praise for From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction: What Measuring Means
Getting the Measure of Things: A Macro Approach
Measurement as an Indicator of Historical Forms of Human Cognition
Measurements and Powers: Foucault's Heritage
Measurement, from Self-Care to Self-Management
Measurement Considered as a Praxis and a Contextualized Activity
Measurement as Assemblage
A Contextualized Activity
Measuring to Produce Ontologies
Making Others
Making Temporalities and Hierarchizing Rhythms
Structure of the Book
Bibliography
Part I: The Measurements of the Human Body Between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century: from the Flesh to the Subjectivity
2: Producing Otherness Through Resemblance: Bodily Orifices and the Measuring of the Human (1800-1860)
Describing or Measuring Differences
Resemblance and Genealogical Thinking
From Beastly Ugliness to Fallacious Seduction
Sensory Organs: Controlling Time and the World
Clinical Clues: Generation Trouble
Numerating the Invisible
Conclusion: The Dangers of Analogy in Scientific Reasoning
References
Sources
Bibliography
3: Talking Bones: Age in Nineteenth-Century Forensic Handbooks (1813-1906)
The Anatomic Politics of "Bone Age"
Forensic Medicine Treatises: A Vantage Point to Examine Two Early and Late Nineteenth-Century Ontogenetic Models
Age as a Marker of Singularity at the Beginnings of Forensic Medicine in the Early Nineteenth Century
The "Médecin Total" and the Art of the Forensic Pathologist According to Fodéré
The Body: A Tangle of Passions, Lifestyles, and Organs
Age: An Equivocal Criterion and the Mark of a Unique Biographical Experience
Measuring Singularity
Age as a Development Marker Used in Association with Chronological Thresholds in Late Nineteenth-Century Medical Expertise
Orfila or the Experimental Biochemical Shift in Forensic Science
Lacassagne and the Hygienist Movement: Age as an Organic State, an Individual Modifier, and a Lever for the Fortification of the Population
The Progress of Ossification and the Measuring of Age in Lacassagne's Forensic Medicine
Conclusion
Sources
Medicine and Forensic Medicine
Series Editors' Preface
Praise for From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction: What Measuring Means
Getting the Measure of Things: A Macro Approach
Measurement as an Indicator of Historical Forms of Human Cognition
Measurements and Powers: Foucault's Heritage
Measurement, from Self-Care to Self-Management
Measurement Considered as a Praxis and a Contextualized Activity
Measurement as Assemblage
A Contextualized Activity
Measuring to Produce Ontologies
Making Others
Making Temporalities and Hierarchizing Rhythms
Structure of the Book
Bibliography
Part I: The Measurements of the Human Body Between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century: from the Flesh to the Subjectivity
2: Producing Otherness Through Resemblance: Bodily Orifices and the Measuring of the Human (1800-1860)
Describing or Measuring Differences
Resemblance and Genealogical Thinking
From Beastly Ugliness to Fallacious Seduction
Sensory Organs: Controlling Time and the World
Clinical Clues: Generation Trouble
Numerating the Invisible
Conclusion: The Dangers of Analogy in Scientific Reasoning
References
Sources
Bibliography
3: Talking Bones: Age in Nineteenth-Century Forensic Handbooks (1813-1906)
The Anatomic Politics of "Bone Age"
Forensic Medicine Treatises: A Vantage Point to Examine Two Early and Late Nineteenth-Century Ontogenetic Models
Age as a Marker of Singularity at the Beginnings of Forensic Medicine in the Early Nineteenth Century
The "Médecin Total" and the Art of the Forensic Pathologist According to Fodéré
The Body: A Tangle of Passions, Lifestyles, and Organs
Age: An Equivocal Criterion and the Mark of a Unique Biographical Experience
Measuring Singularity
Age as a Development Marker Used in Association with Chronological Thresholds in Late Nineteenth-Century Medical Expertise
Orfila or the Experimental Biochemical Shift in Forensic Science
Lacassagne and the Hygienist Movement: Age as an Organic State, an Individual Modifier, and a Lever for the Fortification of the Population
The Progress of Ossification and the Measuring of Age in Lacassagne's Forensic Medicine
Conclusion
Sources
Medicine and Forensic Medicine