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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christine Quigley |
ISBN: | 9780786444298 0786444290 |
OCLC Number: | 770876252 |
Description: | viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Definitions of dissection and autopsy -- Dissection chronology -- Introduction -- Anatomists as procurers of cadavers -- Anatomists as demonstrators and educators -- Anatomists as preparators and collectors -- Anatomists as superlatives and showmen -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Christine Quigley. |
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Abstract:
"This volume traces the past and present of public dissection. From Italian anatomy theaters to American dissecting laboratories, it chronicles the attacks on anatomy in the Middle Ages, the influence of Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius, the procurement of bodies through execution and body snatchers, and the withdrawal of dissectors behind medical school doors in the early 20th century"--
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