Article ID: CBB228242848

The teaching of anatomy throughout the centuries: from Herophilus to plastination and beyond (2019)

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Cultural changes, scientific progress, and new trends in medical education have modified the role of dissection in the teaching of anatomy in today’s medical schools. Dissection is indispensable for a correct and complete knowledge of human anatomy, which can ensure safe as well as efficient clinical practice and the human dissection lab could possibly be the ideal place to cultivate humanistic qualities among future physicians. In this manuscript, we discuss the role of dissection itself, the value of which has been under debate for the last 30 years; furthermore, we attempt to focus on the way in which anatomy knowledge was delivered throughout the centuries, from the ancient times, through the Middles Ages to the present. Finally, we document the rise of plastination as a new trend in anatomy education both in medical and non-medical practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Hurren, Elizabeth T.
Buklijas, Tatjana
Chaplin, Simon
Ferber, Sarah
Hopwood, Nick
Kausmally, Tania
Journals
Medical History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
History of Psychiatry
Journal of the History of Collections
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Edizioni ETS
L'Erma di Bretschneider
W. W. Norton & Co.
Concepts
Medicine
Dissection
Anatomy
Human anatomy
Medical education and teaching
Medicine and society
People
Alighieri, Dante
Hewson, William
Hume, David
Lundborg, Johan
Mondino de' Liuzzi
Thurlow, Thomas
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
16th century
20th century
21st century
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
Italy
Vienna (Austria)
Austro-hungary
Munich (Germany)
Belgium
Institutions
Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale di Firenze
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