Digital Imaging and History of Medicine
The Guts according to Aristotle: A visual Reconstruction (2023)
Enter ATLOMY’s contribution to learn about Aristotle conception of the guts and digestion: view the 3D model we created of the guts according to Aristotle, learn about the anatomical parts and terminology, about his physiological ideas and about our innovative method of analysing the Aristotelian text and presenting a 3D visual representation of his ideas.
comparative Guts was conceived and curated by Dr Chiara Thumiger.
The Soul is an Octopus: Ancient Ideas of Life and the Body (2016)
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The exhibition “The Soul is an Octopus” examined ancient conceptions of the soul and its interaction with the human body. In Graeco-Roman thought the soul was not only the basis of an individual person’s thinking, feeling or moral character. It was also a biological principle that gave life and structure to the body. The soul enabled 
the material body to function so that human beings could move or think. The body in return was thought of as carrying out the functions of the soul as its organon–the Greek word for instrument. From the ways in which the soul’s instruments functioned or failed to function, as in cases of illness, ancient philosophers and medical thinkers tried to infer the nature of the soul itself. Thus pathologies of body and mind indicated where and how the functions of the soul were being disrupted, and played a valuable part in understanding the nature and the operations of the soul.
The exhibition showed at:
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité | May 11, 2016 to September 11, 2016 | Exhibition opening: May 10, 2016
Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt | July 20, 2017 to January 21, 2018
Klinikum Christophsbad in Göppingen | February 15, 2018 to July 15, 2018
For more information:
https://www.topoi.org/knowledge-transfer/exhibitions-and-events/mapping-body-and-soul/
https://christophgeiger.com/the-soul-is-an-octopus
Exhibition catalogue 
