Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, the members of medical, lay, religious,
university and artistic communities, often with various degrees of collaboration, observed the …

The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from
Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey-the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine …

During the second half of the 14th century, scholars in Europe began distancing themselves
from the philosophy of Aristotle, which had been, one way or another, the main influence on …

Abstract The Doctrine of Final Cause, taken from Aristotle's “causes” and modified by
Claudius (Aelius) Galen (of Pergamon) stated that for an anatomical part to exist it must have …

When we speak of the foundation of human anatomy, we immediately remem ber the names
of two great Greek physicians who, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the third …

In the past decade, the history of anatomy in the Renaissance has become a topic of wide
interest well beyond the small community of medical historians. It has been studied with a …

Although both of these books focus on Italian medical writing ih" fhe sixteenth century, it is
difficult to imagine two more divergent treatments. Siraisi offers a nuanced and highly …

In his landmark study On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543), Andreas Vesalius launched
a withering critique of Galen, the ancient physician whose anatomical writings had held …

The learned practitioners of medicine at the beginning of the fourteenth century knew little
about the structures and workings of the human body beyond what they had read in their …

Universal access to the human body allows the body to serve as a common standard to
which all things are measured against; an accessible analog. Societies cling to the comfort …