S01E05: Autopsies in the Middle Ages

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Ramblings with a Medical Historian

Nicole Curry

20 episodes

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I discuss the history of medicine. I look at the practices, practitioners, misconceptions and more. I also talk about working in a museum and reenacting medical history. I also throw in some local history from my hometown.

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S01E05: Autopsies in the Middle Ages

Ramblings with a Medical Historian

17 minutes 26 seconds

4 years ago

S01E05: Autopsies in the Middle Ages

In this episode, we will be looking at the misconception that the Church banned autopsies in the Middle Ages. Email me @ ramblings.mh@gmail.com

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Here are the sources I used for this episode:

Conner, Annastasia "Galen’s Analogy: Animal Experimentation and Anatomy in the Second Century C.E." Anthós 8, Iss. 1, Article 9 (2017): 118-145. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=anthos

Hæger, Knut. The Illustrated History of Surgery. Translated and edited by Jon van Leuven. London: Harold Starke Publishers, 1988.

Kemp, Martin “Dissection and Divinity in Leonardo’s Late Anatomies” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1972): 200-225. (Accessed October 5, 2015). http://www.jstor.org/stable/750929

Loudon, Irvine, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Park, Katharine “The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy” Renaissance Quarterly 47, no.1 (1994): 1-33. (Accessed September 29, 2015). http://www.jstor.org/stable/2863109

Seelig, M.G. M.D. Medicine an Historical Outline. Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1931.

Thadani, Krishan M. “The Myth of a Catholic Religious Objection to Autopsy: The Misinterpretation of De sepulturis during the Renaissance” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 12, no.1 (2012): 37-42. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.libproxy.auc.ca/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=3899c829-e57d-4070-a8c4-eada3cc9d220%40sessionmgr4004&vid=2&hid=4202