Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: The role of bodily routines and practices as an essential component in the study of literacy is considered. The author examines an unusual but not unknown practice by physicians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of binding fine or rare texts in human skin, typically skin taken from their own patients. This embodied literacy practice is related to the transformation of medical practice from an oral to a textual discipline. Connections are made to Nazism and medieval public anatomies.
Source: Quarterly Journal of Speech
Author: Carolyn Marvin
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2042503155