HISTORY 3S03 Chapter Notes - Chapter /: Bloodletting, Sciatica, Grave Robbery
28 Dec 2016
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Explore the rise of anatomy from irrelevance to power in medical education. Medicine is the study of disease and its treatments. Medical cultures peaked in alexandra, renaissance and then in last century (today) 3 themes occur through the history of anatomy: ambivalence or (cid:494)approach avoidance(cid:495) aversions about cutting up dead bodies. Desire to learn about illness often conflicted with religious or cultural: the gift of art to medicine. Expression of anatomical wisdom relied on visual forms of: anatomical study separate from medical wisdom communication. Pursuit of anatomy in art or science didn(cid:495)t imply equal status in medicine. Dissection and anatomical ideas in antiquity: elaborate burial practices in ancient egypt provided opportunities to observe body parts. Embalmers situated organs and extracted them through tiny holes and slits in body. Physicians didn(cid:495)t seem to use anatomy - only physiology organs associated with specific functions. Blood vessels were hypothesized rather than known and only a few.
