Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-4826-2 (ISBN)

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Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints emerging from previous research. Studies of early modern Iberian science have only been carried out coherently and collaboratively in the last few decades, even though fierce debates on the subject have dominated Spanish historiography for more than two centuries. In the field of anatomy studies, many uninformed and biased readings of archival sources have resulted in a very confused picture of the practice of dissection and the teaching of anatomy in the Iberian Peninsula, in which the highly complex conditions of anatomical research within Spain’s national context are often oversimplified. The new empirical evidence that this book brings to light suggests a far more multifaceted narrative of Iberian Renaissance anatomy than has been presented to date.

BjÃ¸rn Okholm Skaarup received his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence in 2009 and conducted post-doctoral research at the Warburg Institute, UK, and Columbia University, USA. He is also an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally.

1: Early Modern Spanish Anatomy and ‘La polémica de la ciencia española'; 2: Valencia; 3: Salamanca; 4: Valladolid; 5: Alcalá de Henares; 6: Barcelona; 7: Zaragoza; 8: Beyond the Universities; 9: Beyond Iberia; 10: Images of Spanish Renaissance Anatomy; Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2015
Reihe/Serie	The History of Medicine in Context
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4724-4826-X / 147244826X
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-4826-2 / 9781472448262
Zustand	Neuware