The anatomist anatomis'd
Subtitle: an experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe
By: Andrew Cunningham.
Series: History of medicine in context; History of medicine in context
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780754663386
Subjects: Human anatomy -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment; Anatomy -- history -- Europe; Anatomy -- trends -- Europe; History, 18th Century -- Europe; History, 19th Century -- Europe
Description: In my previous book on the history of anatomy, The Anatomical Renaissance (1997), I argued that the practice of anatomy had not been monolithic: all the anatomists from Aristotle to the Renaissance had not been engaged in a single cumulative investigative enterprise, but there were several different enterprises of anatomical investigation carried out by different people at different times and undetaken for particular reasons.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "This awful subject"; title: "Merit is sure of its reward" : careers and courses; title: Experimental anatomy and its sub-disciplines; title: Human bodies : getting, keeping, picturing, publishing, and arguing; title: Animal bodies and comparative anatomy; title: The end of old anatomy.