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Human cadaveric dissection: a historical account from ancient Greece to the modern era

2015; Volume: 48; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5115/acb.2015.48.3.153

2093-3673

Sanjib Kumar Ghosh,

Surgical Simulation and Training

to its disappearance in the Middle Ages and subsequent revival in the early 14th century Italy.It traces the gradual change in attitude of religious authorities towards human dissection from being the primary dissuader to playing the role of mediator (when human dissection was strictly practiced within the boundaries of European universities) to accepting human dissection for teaching anatomy, which turned dissection sessions into public events.The article also emphasizes on the shift from the practice of dissection being performed by barber surgeons (prevalent from the time of Mondino de Liuzzi) to the anatomist himself dissecting the cadaver, a move triggered by Andreas Vesalius.Particularly the article focuses on the means of cadaver procurement which began with dissecting bodies of executed criminals (when human dissection was synonymous with capital punishment), then anatomists had to depend on illegal means