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The anatomist anatomis'd : an experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe / Andrew Cunningham.
- Title
- The anatomist anatomis'd : an experimental discipline in Enlightenment Europe / Andrew Cunningham.
- Author
- Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT Ashgate, c2010.
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- Description
- xxii, 443 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In my previous book on the history of anatomy, The Anatomical Renaissance (1997), I argued that the practice of anatomy had not been monolithic: all the anatomists from Aristotle to the Renaissance had not been engaged in a single cumulative investigative enterprise, but there were several different enterprises of anatomical investigation carried out by different people at different times and undetaken for particular reasons.
- Series Statement
- History of medicine in context
- Uniform Title
- History of medicine in context
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "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.
- ISBN
- 9780754663386 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0754663388 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009045492
- OCLC
- 465378731
- SCSB-11182305
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library