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Bubb Claire - Dissection In Classical Antiquity A Social And Medical History - Hardcover
Bubb Claire - Dissection In Classical Antiquity A Social And Medical History - Hardcover
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Description: Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the story back to classical antiquity employing a wide range of textual and material evidence. Claire Bubb reveals how dissection was practised from the Hippocratic authors of the fifth century BC through Aristotle and the Hellenistic doctors Herophilus and Erasistratus to Galen in the second century AD. She focuses on its material concerns and social contexts from the anatomical subjects (animal or human) and how they were acquired to the motivations and audiences of dissection to its place in the web of social contexts that informed its reception including butchery sacrifice and spectacle. The book concludes with a thorough examination of the relationship of dissection to the development of anatomical literature into Late Antiquity.
Title: Dissection In Classical Antiquity A Social And Medical History
Author(s): Bubb Claire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781009159470
Pages: 412 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises; 10 Halftones, Color
Publication Date: 2/2/2023
Category: History Of Medicine
Description: Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the story back to classical antiquity employing a wide range of textual and material evidence. Claire Bubb reveals how dissection was practised from the Hippocratic authors of the fifth century BC through Aristotle and the Hellenistic doctors Herophilus and Erasistratus to Galen in the second century AD. She focuses on its material concerns and social contexts from the anatomical subjects (animal or human) and how they were acquired to the motivations and audiences of dissection to its place in the web of social contexts that informed its reception including butchery sacrifice and spectacle. The book concludes with a thorough examination of the relationship of dissection to the development of anatomical literature into Late Antiquity.
Title: Dissection In Classical Antiquity A Social And Medical History
Author(s): Bubb Claire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781009159470
Pages: 412 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises; 10 Halftones, Color
Publication Date: 2/2/2023
Category: History Of Medicine
