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Hardcover Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image Book

ISBN: 0271093358

ISBN13: 9780271093352

Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dissected while still hanging from the gallows. In this highly original book, Rose Marie San Juan confronts the question of violence in the making of the...

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