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The Anatomist Anatomis'd - An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe (Paperback)
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The Anatomist Anatomis'd - An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe (Paperback)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own
period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the
investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in
disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at
the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how
one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was
practised, what the point was of its practice, what counted as
sub-disciplines of anatomy, and the nature of arguments over
anatomical facts and priority of discovery. In particular
pathology, generation and birth, and comparative anatomy are shown
to have been linked together as sub-disciplines of anatomy. At
first sight anatomy seems the most long-lived and stable of medical
disciplines, from Galen and Vesalius to the present. But Cunningham
argues that anatomy was, like so many other areas of knowledge,
changed irrevocably around the end of the eighteenth century, with
the creation of new disciplines, new forms of knowledge and new
ways of investigation. The 'long' eighteenth century, therefore,
was not only the highpoint of anatomy but also the endpoint of old
anatomy.
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