Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
The cadaver and its exploration have been seen as limiting access to knowledge ever since the Renaissance. In the early modern period, anatomists and surgeons recurrently pointed out the ways in which the corpse seemed to resist knowledge. As a consequence, medical men often evoked the question of v...
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| description | The cadaver and its exploration have been seen as limiting access to knowledge ever since the Renaissance. In the early modern period, anatomists and surgeons recurrently pointed out the ways in which the corpse seemed to resist knowledge. As a consequence, medical men often evoked the question of vivisection, referring to ancient texts and to a case of vivisection supposed to have taken place in the Middle Ages. This paper will not try to find out the reality of such practices. Rather, it will examine the varied and changing uses of the issue of vivisection, as vivisection crystallized rhetorical, medical, historiographical and philosophical questions in the early modern period. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89b7bc1c9806457492e49aeebaedb4f42023-02-09T16:10:20ZengPresses universitaires du MidiHistoire, Médecine et Santé2263-89112557-21132012-11-01210913510.4000/hms.296Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe sièclesRafael MandressiThe cadaver and its exploration have been seen as limiting access to knowledge ever since the Renaissance. In the early modern period, anatomists and surgeons recurrently pointed out the ways in which the corpse seemed to resist knowledge. As a consequence, medical men often evoked the question of vivisection, referring to ancient texts and to a case of vivisection supposed to have taken place in the Middle Ages. This paper will not try to find out the reality of such practices. Rather, it will examine the varied and changing uses of the issue of vivisection, as vivisection crystallized rhetorical, medical, historiographical and philosophical questions in the early modern period.http://journals.openedition.org/hms/296vivisectionanatomyCelsecadaver |
| spellingShingle | Rafael Mandressi Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles Histoire, Médecine et Santé vivisection anatomy Celse cadaver |
| title | Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles |
| title_full | Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles |
| title_fullStr | Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles |
| title_short | Les limites du cadavre. La tentation de la vivisection humaine, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles |
| title_sort | les limites du cadavre la tentation de la vivisection humaine xvie xviiie siecles |
| topic | vivisection anatomy Celse cadaver |
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