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Dissection on Display: Cadavers, Anatomists and Public Spectacle

Dissection on Display: Cadavers, Anatomists and Public Spectacle

Quigley, Christine

Paperback

Medical ReferenceDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 0786444290
ISBN13: 9780786444298
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 9 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Since Herophilus, the father of anatomy, performed the first public human dissection in the third century B.C.E., audiences have been spellbound by the cutting apart of cadavers. This volume traces the past and present of public dissection, from Herophilus's first cuts to the revival of anatomy as entertainment through spectacles like Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, including 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. It reveals that the anatomical spectacle is not new, but has remained in the gray area between education and entertainment for centuries.

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