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Andreas Vesalius
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- Book Synopsis
- In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissection as a form of destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped establish how the human body was constructed. Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius's book presented this view through innovative use of Renaissance art, printing technology and the classical tradition. She replaces the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy with a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create an astounding, beautiful book that propelled him to the post of imperial physician and secured his enduring fame.
- About The Author
- Sachiko Kusukawa is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Her books include Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany (2012), which won the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society.
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- ISBN
- 9781789148527
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, (13 May 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 614 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 27 mm
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