Flashlights, mirrors and guts. Design of an exhibition project based on the instruments of visual exploration of the López Piñero Institute

Authors

  • Mábel Fuentes-Darás Fuentes Darás Institut d’Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència «López Piñero»

Keywords:

Material culture of medicine, medical equipment, medical imaging, exposiciones, exhibitions design, museology.

Abstract

This article develops a summary of a curatorship in history of medicine as well as describes and specifies its exhibition strategy. First of all, it tackles the subject of study and exhibition’s main subject matter, namely sight legitimation, aided by visualization medical equipment, as a diagnostic assessment procedure along the 19th century. Secondly, it discusses and exposes the exhibition approach. By doing all this, the exhibition project shows the different features — scientific, social and cultural, that surrounded these instruments progressive emergence, and its subsequent establishment, outlining the causes that bestowed visualization a privileged position in diagnostics. The article states an overview of the research process conducted, itemizes the most relevant selected sources to be displayed, argues the exhibit strategy, and provides graphic documentation regarding the final exhibition design outcome.

Author Biography

Mábel Fuentes-Darás Fuentes Darás, Institut d’Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència «López Piñero»



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Published

2021-06-17

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Vol. 14 (2021)

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