Book ID: CBB000773343

Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (2006)

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Park, Katharine (Author)


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Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: 419 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “Explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and Renaissance Italy, arguing that female bodies, real and imagined, played a central role in the history of anatomy during that time.” (from the abstract)


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Review Featherstone, Lisa (2008) Review of "Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 311). unapi

Review Kusukawa, Sachiko (2008) Review of "Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 172). unapi

Review Findlen, Paula (2009) Review of "Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection". Journal of Modern History (p. 379). unapi

Essay Review Buklijas, T. (2008) Cultures of Dissection and Anatomies of Generation. Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 439-444). unapi

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Book Park, Katharine (2009) Secrets de femmes. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bartoli, Evangelista
D'Angelo, Edoardo
Vaglienti, Folco
Viterbo (di), Girolamo
Greco, Pietro
Fughelli, Patrizia
Journals
Medicina Historica
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Renaissance Quarterly
Nature
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
L'Asino d'oro Edizioni
Bryn Mawr College
University of Massachusetts Press
University of California Press
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Pennsylvania State University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Human body
Human anatomy
Medicine and gender
Medicine and art
Dissection
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Trotula of Salerno
Sforza, Caterina
Mondino de' Liuzzi
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
15th century
Medieval
14th century
13th century
Places
Italy
Salerno (Italy)
Milan (Italy)
England
London (England)
Bologna (Italy)
Institutions
Salerno. Schola Salernitana
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