Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy and the World of Books

Sachiko Kusukawa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-852-7 (ISBN)

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A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius - the father of modern anatomy - as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture. In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we often think of dissection as destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped him understand how to construct the human body. In this book, Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius's publication emerged from the interplay of Renaissance art, printing technology, and classical tradition. She challenges the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy through a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create a big and beautiful book that propelled him into imperial circles and secured his enduring fame.

Sachiko Kusukawa is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Her books include Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany (2012), which won the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Renaissance Lives
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-78914-852-9 / 1789148529
ISBN-13	978-1-78914-852-7 / 9781789148527
Zustand	Neuware