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Article: Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection.(Book review)
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. By Katharine Park. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. 419. $36.95.)
With this ground-breaking, beautifully written book, the author debunks two myths about the relationship between science, religion, and gender in medieval Italy. Like numerous other historians of medieval science, the author attacks the long-standing misconception, first posed by Cornell president Andrew Dickson White, that "presents religion and science as diametrically opposed" and "the Church as deeply hostile to dissection" (21). Instead, Katharine Park looks beyond the practice of dissection in university medical ...
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