Andreas Vesalius
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Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy and the World of Books

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Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy and the World of Books

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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.

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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2024
ISBN
9781789148770
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Learned Medicine and Its Books
  8. 2 Books and Careers
  9. 3 Vesalius and the World of Books
  10. 4 The Making of the Book: The Printer and the Author
  11. 5 The Human Figure: Art and Anatomy
  12. 6 Theatre
  13. 7 The Bodies in the Book
  14. 8 Vesalius: Surgeon, Anatomist, Physician?
  15. 9 Making and Unmaking
  16. 10 After Fabrica
  17. CHRONOLOGY
  18. REFERENCES
  19. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  21. PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  22. INDEX