Article ID: CBB001211296

Florentine Anatomical Models and the Challenge of Medical Authority in Late-Eighteenth-Century Vienna (2012)

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Maerker, Anna (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 43, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 730-740


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special section on the relationship between medical knowledge and administration in the Habsburg Monarchy
Language: English

This paper investigates the reception of a set of Florentine anatomical wax models on display at the medico-surgical academy Josephinum in late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Celebrated in Florence as tools of public enlightenment, in the Habsburg capital the models were criticised by physicians, who regarded the Josephinum and its surgeons as a threat to their medical authority. The controversy surrounding these models from the empire's periphery temporarily destabilised the relationship between surgeons and physicians in the Austrian capital. The debate on the utility of the Tuscan anatomical models in Vienna highlights the fact that the centre of the Habsburg empire was by no means medically homogeneous, and that the implementation of reforms could be as difficult to achieve in the capital as in the provinces.

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Article Spary, E. C. (2012) Centre and Periphery in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg “Medical Empire”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 684-690). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Maerker, Anna
Ambrosi, Moira
Pieraccini, Giuseppe
Galeotti, Monica
Corti, Claudia
Ottavia Mosca
Concepts
Anatomy
Models and modeling in science
Medicine
Museums
Wax modeling
Science and art
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
17th century
16th century
Enlightenment
Places
Florence (Italy)
Vienna (Austria)
Italy
Sardinia
Bologna (Italy)
Hungary
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Museo della Specola, Florence
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale di Firenze
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