1st Edition
The Anatomist Anatomis'd An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe
By Andrew Cunningham
Copyright 2010
468 Pages
by
Routledge
468 Pages
by
Routledge
468 Pages
by
Routledge
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The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was practised, what the point... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: the anatomist anatomis'd; 'This awful subject'; 'Merit is sure of its reward': careers and courses; Experimental anatomy and its sub-disciplines; Human bodies: getting, keeping, picturing, publishing, arguing; Animal bodies and comparative anatomy; The end of old anatomy; Bibliographies; Index.
Biography
Andrew Cunningham is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He also wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The Making of Modern Medicine.
'Andrew Cunningham's The Anatomist Anatomis'd is a landmark in the history of medicine... informative, entertaining, and essential reading for both scholars and students. Sixteenth Century Journal 'The Anatomist Anatomis’d is a rich and varied work that succeeds in delineating and exploring the various aspects of the discipline of anatomy during the long eighteenth century. The numerous examples of specific people and activities alongside a large selection of images bring this intellectual endeavour to life and make it thoroughly absorbing.' European History Quarterly
