Dissection in Classical Antiquity: A Social and Medical History
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Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the story back to classical antiquity, employing a wide range of textual and material evidence. Claire Bubb reveals how dissection was practised from the Hippocratic authors of the fifth century BC through Aristotle and the Hellenistic doctors Herophilus and Erasistratus to Galen in the second century AD. She focuses on its material concerns and social contexts, from the anatomical subjects (animal or human) and how they were acquired, to the motivations and audiences of dissection, to its place in the web of social contexts that informed its reception, including butchery, sacrifice, and spectacle. The book concludes with a thorough examination of the relationship of dissection to the development of anatomical literature into Late Antiquity. 01.0_pp_i_ii_Dissection_in_Classical_Antiquity 02.0_pp_iii_iii_Dissection_in_Classical_Antiquity 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 05.0_pp_vii_vii_Figures 06.0_pp_viii_viii_Acknowledgments 07.0_pp_ix_x_A_Note_on_Citations_Abbreviations_and_Dates 08.0_pp_1_8_Introduction 09.0_pp_9_166_Practice 09.1_pp_11_53_Dissection_in_the_Classical_and_Hellenistic_Periods 09.2_pp_54_90_Dissection_in_the_Roman_Period 09.3_pp_91_139_Practical_Considerations_of_the_Dissector 09.4_pp_140_166_The_Broader_Social_Contexts_of_Dissection 10.0_pp_167_363_Text 10.1_pp_169_215_Anatomical_Texts_of_the_Classical_and_Hellenistic_Periods 10.2_pp_216_273_Anatomical_Texts_of_the_Roman_Period 10.3_pp_274_315_Galens_Minor_Anatomical_Works 10.4_pp_316_348_Galens_Anatomical_Procedures_and_Its_Innovations 10.5_pp_349_363_Epilogue_A_Waxing_and_Waning_Art 11.0_pp_364_396_Works_Cited 12.0_pp_397_402_Index
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