Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain
- Responsibility
- Bjørn Okholm Skaarup.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2015]
- Copyright notice
- ©2015
- Physical description
- xii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Series
- History of medicine in context.
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| Call number | Status |
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| QM11 .S53 2015 |
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Skaarup, Bjørn Okholm, author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
- Contents
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- Contents: Early modern Spanish anatomy and 'La polemica de la ciencia espanola'-- Valencia-- Salamanca-- Valladolid-- Alcala de Henares-- Barcelona-- Zaragoza-- Beyond the universities-- Beyond Iberia-- Images of Spanish Renaissance anatomy-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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- Summary
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Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints emerging from previous research. Studies of early modern Iberian science have only been carried out coherently and collaboratively in the last few decades, even though fierce debates on the subject have dominated Spanish historiography for more than two centuries. In the field of anatomy studies, many uninformed and biased readings of archival sources have resulted in a very confused picture of the practice of dissection and the teaching of anatomy in the Iberian Peninsula, in which the highly complex conditions of anatomical research within Spain's national context are often oversimplified. The new empirical evidence that this book brings to light suggests a far more multifaceted narrative of Iberian Renaissance anatomy than has been presented to date.
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Subjects
- Subject
- Anatomy > History > 16th century.
- Anatomists > Spain > History > 16th century.
- Spain > History > 16th century.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2015
- Copyright date
- 2015
- Series
- The history of medicine in context
- ISBN
- 9781472448262 hardcover alkaline paper
- 147244826X hardcover alkaline paper
- 9781472448279 electronic book
- 9781472448286 electronic publication
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