A history of human anatomy /

Many advances in medicine and surgery can be directly linked to improvements in understanding the structure and function of the human body. During the sixteenth century, the study of human anatomy became an objective discipline, based on direct observation and scientific principles. Not surprisingly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Persaud, T. V. N. (Autor), Loukas, Marios (Autor), Tubbs, R. Shane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A. : Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd., [2014]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Human anatomy > History.
Anatomy > history
Anatomie humaine > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Human anatomy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ancient records
  • Pre Hipocratic era
  • Hippocratic concepts
  • Aristotle
  • Alexandria
  • Dawn of the Roman Empire
  • Galen
  • Early Middle Ages
  • Mondino de Luzzi
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • European Renaissance and human anatomy
  • The immediate successors of Vesalius in Padua
  • From Padua to Leiden
  • The era of William Harvey
  • Physicians, surgeons, and anatomists
  • William Hunter and his legacy
  • The transcendent greatness of John Hunter
  • Professionalism and recognition
  • Ireland and anatomy
  • Scotland
  • Robert Knox: honor and tragedy
  • The anatomical literature
  • The human body revealed
  • Body snatchers and the trade in corpses
  • Legislation of human dissection
  • Germany
  • Anatomy in the new world
  • Fragments from the east
  • Late 19th century
  • Anatomy in the Third Reich
  • The 20th century
  • Anatomical societies and associations
  • Modernization of anatomy curricula in medical schools.

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