ABSTRACT
This conclusion present some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the public health revolution in the industrializing countries of Europe, dating from the early to mid nineteenth century, had a major and continuing impact on the incidence and distribution of disease. By the early twenty-first century, film, art and design were increasingly teasing the potential of hybridity, as the work of artists such as Patricia Piccinini illustrates. This interest in playing with corporeality and genesis is old, of course, represented persistently in tales of the ancients and in medieval gargoyles, in depictions of xenogenesis, mutation and surrealism from Bosch to Dali, Kahlo and Magritte, as well as in children's books, in cartoon fantasy and science fiction. The exhibition included also orthopedic supports from Rokitta, a Germany-based company that produces everything from lip balm, support hose and sportswear to grass cutters and earth moving equipment, children's playgrounds and cockpits.
