UCS Academy Guest Lecture series - 23/04/2013 - 5.30-7.30pm

University event offered by University of Suffolk

Short Session

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Body Parts: The History of Dissection and the History of History - Professor Helen King. Professor King will discuss how historians have approached the different ways in which anatomy has been taught over the past two thousand years, and how history can speak to our present debates about the balance between respect for the body and the quest for a better understanding of it. The need for human dissection in medical science has been disputed since the early Roman Empire; today the newest medical schools teach anatomy through internet resources and other non-invasive methods. In the Renaissance, public anatomies were a ... (Please click the send enquiry link for more information)