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Identifying the Pathogen
A hybrid collection blending historical research and contemporary essays to consider the nature of oppressive marriage and gender inequity.
Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies, and experiments, Identifying the Pathogen tells the story of a scientist on an obsessive quest to document an ailment that resists classification. The book considers the body in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, woven through with the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini—an eighteenth-century Italian anatomist and artist who struggled to support a husband suffering from depression—as well as several essays detailing accounts of a ruptured appendix, a splintered cello, and an ill-fated rock climbing excursion.
Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies, and experiments, Identifying the Pathogen tells the story of a scientist on an obsessive quest to document an ailment that resists classification. The book considers the body in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, woven through with the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini—an eighteenth-century Italian anatomist and artist who struggled to support a husband suffering from depression—as well as several essays detailing accounts of a ruptured appendix, a splintered cello, and an ill-fated rock climbing excursion.
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Table of Contents
Contents
i.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
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the influence of vision on the mind
the lab
the body
philtrum
pericardium
sinus
post script
the lab
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Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Wax Portrait of a Marriage
Autopsy Report
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the body
cell
bone
mortality
the body
traits/the eye
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The Ten Commandments of the Anatomist’s Wife
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Autopsy Report
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vision
travel
the body
microscope slide
blood/leukemia
respiration
blood
ii.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
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the lab
the lab
in the lab/ill
identifying the pathogen
musculoskeletal
physiognomy
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Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Autopsy Report
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blood/heart
blood
genetics/the cell/reproduction/asexual
landscape with fossils/diatoms/day with
the lab
spring/bloomings/foliage/flora
scales
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Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Autopsy Report
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time/day: transmutations
mortality
open season
the lab
vivisection
iii.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
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time/lab
s(k)in(s)
corollaries
the lab
time/day: transmutations
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Wax Portrait of Husband as Male Anglerfish
Wax Portrait of a Marriage
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
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blood
pestilent tether/garroted frenzy/anaerobic ferment
eye/vision
mind
the body
radar eve
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Wax Portrait of a Son
Wax Portrait
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the lab
specimen slide
brain
vivisection
the lab
the circle museum
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Anna Morandi Manzolini
notes & acknowledgments 132
i.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
+
the influence of vision on the mind
the lab
the body
philtrum
pericardium
sinus
post script
the lab
+
Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Wax Portrait of a Marriage
Autopsy Report
+
the body
cell
bone
mortality
the body
traits/the eye
+
The Ten Commandments of the Anatomist’s Wife
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Autopsy Report
+
vision
travel
the body
microscope slide
blood/leukemia
respiration
blood
ii.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
+
the lab
the lab
in the lab/ill
identifying the pathogen
musculoskeletal
physiognomy
+
Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Autopsy Report
+
blood/heart
blood
genetics/the cell/reproduction/asexual
landscape with fossils/diatoms/day with
the lab
spring/bloomings/foliage/flora
scales
+
Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Autopsy Report
+
time/day: transmutations
mortality
open season
the lab
vivisection
iii.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
+
time/lab
s(k)in(s)
corollaries
the lab
time/day: transmutations
+
Wax Portrait of Husband as Male Anglerfish
Wax Portrait of a Marriage
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
+
blood
pestilent tether/garroted frenzy/anaerobic ferment
eye/vision
mind
the body
radar eve
+
Wax Portrait of a Son
Wax Portrait
+
the lab
specimen slide
brain
vivisection
the lab
the circle museum
+
Anna Morandi Manzolini
notes & acknowledgments 132