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Violence and the genesis of the anatomical image /

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: San Juan, Rose Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
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