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Article: Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance & Hygiene in the Early Medical Tradition.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Roger French, Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance
Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999.43 pls. + ix + 289 pp. $86.95. ISBN: 1-85928-361-6.
Heikki Mikkeli, Hygiene in the Early Medical Tradition
(Humaniora, 305.) Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1999. 9 figs. + 195 pp. np. ISBN: 951-41-0869-8.
These two books, on different but related topics, are instructive and valuable. Professor French wants to know why a vast body of knowledge on anatomical dissection, built up from the days of Galen (second century), but especially from the middle ages (twelfth century) to the end of the Renaissance (beginning of ...