Paul Aegineta, Avicenna, Rhasis, in short all the schools of the Greeks and Arabs echo with nothing but this; and almost all
anatomists sing it so.
Cardano was a user and consumer of contemporary anatomical texts, rather than a research
anatomist like Vesalius; his writing on anatomy thus allows Siraisi to get away from the focus on great
anatomists that has largely characterized histories of the subject (including Cunningham's), to see how medical professionals received and interpreted their work.
56) But it is only in the next generation that
anatomists began to rely heavily on unofficial or extralegal sources of supply.
Buffon's concept of whites "degenerating" into blacks helped inspire
anatomists to catalog the differences between these groups.
However, they were also seen as mysterious and unfathomable, most especially so in scenes of dissection featuring
anatomists dealing with dead female bodies.
Messbarger convincingly argues for Morandi's place within Enlightenment science, and not, as Crespi and most later biographers suggested, merely as the dutiful wife of one of Bologna's premier wax
anatomists.
It is really interesting and really bizarre, very different from anything we've seen in vertebrates," study author Diane Kelly, an
anatomist at the University of Massachusetts said.
Instead, Prehistoric Autopsy sees Professor Alice Roberts and Dr George McGavin joining forces with a team of leading
anatomists, anthropologists, archaeologists and special effects gurus to teach us more about one of our closest ancestors.
More than 150
Anatomists from all over India participated and presented scientific papers.
This disconcerting observation is of considerable concern, since it suggests that today's
anatomists give the appearance of being ill equipped to face up to the ethical demands presented by multicultural societies.
Instead, Webb points out how Harvey (as well as other
anatomists like Mondino de' Liuzzi) insisted on seeing in the dissected or vivisected hearts impossible structures that cohered to medieval concepts rather than to observation of the muscle.
He looks into all aspects of the subject, from the backgrounds of the
anatomists to the process of procuring and preserving of the bodies before relating the story of the autopsy itself.
