Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Visual Lessons and the Life Sciences -- 1. Trained Judgment, Intervention, and the Biological Gaze: How Charles Sedgwick Minot Saw Senescence -- 2. Facing Animals in the Laboratory: Lessons of Nineteenth- Century Medical School Microscopy Manuals -- 3. Photography and Medical Observation -- 4. Cinematography without Film: Architectures and Technologies of Visual Instruction in Biology around 1900 -- 5. Cinema as Universal Language of Health Education: Translating Science in Unhooking the Hookworm (1920) -- 6. Screening Science: Pedagogy and Practice in William Dieterle's Film Biographies of Scientists -- 7. Optical Constancy, Discontinuity, and Nondiscontinuity in the Eameses' Rough Sketch -- 8. Educating the High-Speed Eye: Harold E. Edgerton's Early Visual Conventions -- 9. On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of Developmental Biology -- 10. Form and Function: A Semiotic Analysis of Figures in Biology Textbooks -- 11. Neuroimages, Pedagogy, and Society -- 12. The Anatomy of a Surgical Simulation: The Mutual Articulation of Bodies in and through the Machine -- Contributors -- Index.