Books of the Body Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning

Name: Books of the Body Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning
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ISBN: 9780226092874

ISBN-10: 0226092879

ISBN-13: 9780226092874

Edition: 1999

Authors: Andrea Carlino, John. Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi

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This is a history both of Renaissance anatomists and of the bodies they dissected. It is of interest to anyone studying Renaissance science, medicine, art, religion and society.

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.20" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Representations: The Dissection Scene


An Iconographic Investigation


The Quodlibetarian Model


The Title Pages of Mondino dei Liuzzi's "Anatomia"


The Persistence of a Model: Berengario da Carpi


A Transitional Iconography?


The Shift: The Title Page of Andreas Vesalius's


"De humani corporis fabrica"


Images of Dissection in the Vesalian "Manner"



Practices: Norms and Behavior at the Public Anatomy Lesson


The Studium Urbis in the Sixteenth Century Between the Curia and the College


A Portrait of the Physician Preliminary Procedures and Public Control


The Anatomy Lesson and a Bit of History


The Selection of the Cadaver


Explicit Criteria and Implicit Caution Around the Cadaver


Before and after the Anatomy Masses and Alms


Dissection and the Afterlife Between Saying and Doing



Tradition: An Archeology of Anatomical Knowledge and of Dissecting


Practices Physicians and Philosophers


Working on the Discovery of the Body, or the Uses of Anatomy


Unveiling: Dissecting Animals


Dissecting Humans A Paradigm for a Millennium


Unease, Disgust


Contempt: Aristotle


The Empiricists and Christians on the Dissection of the Human Body


The Rebirth of Anatomy



Bodies and Texts: Renaissance Anatomy: Dissection and Anatomical


Knowledge in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries


The Dismemberment of Cadavers


Authority and Evidence


Limitations of Belief: Vesalius, Galen, the Galenists


Revulsion and Unease Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index