Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body (38 page)

Languille, Henri, head 85

larynx 55–6

Last’s Anatomy 81–2

Lateran Council, Fourth 142–3

Lavater, Johann Kaspar 100–101

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) 26–8

left/right-handedness 197–200

left–right asymmetry 197–202

legs 58, 61, 221, 222

and cycling action 246–7

prosthetic 245–7

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 20

Leiden University, anatomy theatre 7

Lely, Peter 155

Leonardo da Vinci xxiv, 14, 26, 104, 128, 153, 205

leprosy 234

Lewis, C. S. 249

life drawing 232–3

life expectancy 255–61

life line 196

Limb, Charles 124

Linnaeus, Carl 34

liposuction 47

literature, bodily ideal in 22–3

liver 41, 69, 73, 80, 128, 138, 142, 200

Locke, John 107

longevity 255–61

Lorelei 94

Louis XIV 89, 221

Louis XV 214

love logo,
133

lungs 10, 71, 129, 200

Luther, Martin 94

McAllister, Peter: Manthropology 218

McCullers, Carson 128

quotation 127

McLuhan, Marshall 244

McManus, Chris 202

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 121–6

Magritte, René: Untitled (Shell in the Form of an Ear) 157

malleus 54

manicules 191

Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain 50

Marey, Etienne-Jules 57

Marinetti, F. T. 175

marrow 51

Marsh, Othniel Charles 34

Marsyas 234

Mary Magdalene 94

Mauritshuis, The Hague 1

meat 178–9

melancholics 151

melanin 170, 171

melatonin 152

Mélisande 94

Melville, Herman: Typee 182

Mengele, Josef 77

menstrual blood 143–4

mental activity 123–4

Messaien, Olivier 175

Methuselah 260

Methuselah Mouse Prize 258

Metropolitan Police 237

Michelangelo: David 204

microcosm, of the human body 19–20

microcosmographias 21

Military Medicine 149

Milton, John 94

Mimizuka monument, Kyoto 162–3

Min 243

mirror neurons 223

Mitchell, Jason 124

mitochondrial DNA 257

Modulor, Le (Le Corbusier) 26–8, 27

molecules, ‘handed’ 201

Monro, Alexander 81

Montaigne, Michel de 40, 181, 195

moral choices, and the brain 123–4

Morandi, Anna 81

mortsafes 74

mouth, and facial recognition 103–4, 233

MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) 121–6

Mueck, Ron 227

Dead Dad
227, 250

Muhammad 216

Mulligan, Carey 90

muscles 46, 58, 59, 71, 187, 188–9, 195, 221, 223, 236, 246–7

in art and drawings
3
, 5, 8, 24, 65–6,
66
, 68, 187,
188
, 249

muscle fatigue 223

muscle tissue 12, 59, 62, 182

Muybridge, Eadweard 57

Nabokov, Vladimir 175

Bend Sinister
135

Speak, Memory
175

nails 237

nakedness see nudity

National Library of Medicine 34–5

Nature 32

nerves 21, 59, 158, 167

nervous system 126

Neuberger, James 139

Neurosense 125

new age thinking 20

Newton, Isaac 114, 117

Nichomachus of Smyrna 45

No Lie MRI 125–6

Nogier, Paul 158

nose 86–91, 100–101

Gogol’s ‘The Nose’ xxii, 87–8, 89

nudity 24, 45, 203–7, 219–20, 229–33, 236

and life drawing 232–3

and ‘the nude’ 229–30

and prudery 204–7, 219, 226

striptease 207, 230–31

types of 230

Nuland, Sherwin 256, 258–9

numbering systems 194

obesity 45

occipital lobe 119

O’Connell, Helen 81

O’Connor, Sinéad 94

oestrogen 211

O’Hara, Maureen 230

Opportunity 94

organ donors 136, 138–9

see also
donors

organ transplants 136–9, 251, 252–5

ovaries 12, 70, 136, 209–10, 254

Ovid: Metamorphoses 210–11, 234, 243

Owen, Richard 78, 178–9

Palaeolithic man 198

Paley, William 51–2, 59

Palladio, Andrea 24

palm-reading 196

parietal lobes 113–14

parietal operculum 113

Pascal, Blaise 128, 129

quotation 127

Pasteur, Louis 201

Paterson, Mary 74–5

Penfield, Wilder 119–20

cortical homunculus 120,
120
–
21

penis 82, 203, 204, 213

nose symbolism for 89

pentathlon 220

Pepys, Samuel 147

Pernkopf, Eduard 77

Perrett, David 102

personal identity xxiv–xxv, 105–8

phantom limbs 174

Philadelphia Inquirer 206

Phillips, Carina 20

phlegm 151

phlegmatics 151

Photofit 104

photography 97–9

computer-manipulated 100, 104

Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science 117

phrenology 116–18, 119

physiognomy 100–101

piezoelectricity 61

pigs 252–3

pineal gland 119, 168–9

Pintubi people, central Australia 218

Pioneer plaque 205–7

Pirsig, Wolfgang 153, 159

pisiform bone 54

pitch, and the ear 157–8

Plato 23

Platonic metaphysics 19–20, 264

Pliny the Elder 46

pointing 190–91

Polykleitos 23–4

Pope, Alexander: ‘The Rape of the Lock’ 94

pornography 230, 231–2

Poussin, Nicolas: Et in Arcadia Ego 51

prefrontal cortex 113

prejudice, and the brain 123, 124

In Preparation 222–3

prestidigitation 196

Priapus 203, 243

primitive streak 200

‘printing’ of human tissue 139–40

prion diseases 181–2

prosthetics 245–7

Proust, Marcel 175

prudery 204–7, 219, 226