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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Representations: The Dissection Scene—An Iconographic Investigation
The Quodlibetarian Model: The Title Pages of Mondino dei Liuzzi's "Anatomia"
The Persistence of a Model: Berengario da Carpi
A Transitional Iconography?
The Shift: The Title Page of Andreas Vesalius's "De humani corporis fabrica"
Images of Dissection in the Vesalian "Manner"
2. Practices: Norms and Behavior at the Public Anatomy Lesson—The Studium Urbis in the Sixteenth Century
Between the Curia and the College: A Portrait of the Physician
Preliminary Procedures and Public Control
The Anatomy Lesson and a Bit of History
The Selection of the Cadaver: Explicit Criteria and Implicit Caution
Around the Cadaver: Before and after the Anatomy
Masses and Alms: Dissection and the Afterlife
Between Saying and Doing
3. Tradition: An Archeology of Anatomical Knowledge and of Dissecting Practices
Physicians and Philosophers Working on the Discovery of the Body, or the Uses of Anatomy
Unveiling: Dissecting Animals, Dissecting Humans
A Paradigm for a Millennium
Unease, Disgust, Contempt: Aristotle, the Empiricists and Christians on the Dissection of the Human Body
The Rebirth of Anatomy
4. Bodies and Texts: Renaissance Anatomy: Dissection and Anatomical Knowledge in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The Dismemberment of Cadavers
Authority and Evidence
Limitations of Belief: Vesalius, Galen, the Galenists
Revulsion and Unease
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Linda Daugherty
reviewed Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning on April 18, 2017
Books of the Body
This is an outstanding book on the history of racism in Europe, from the biologization of race to the "present" (which, unfortunately, is 18 years ago). MacMaster pulls together a number of threads and essentially breaks racism in Europe down into two not-quite-discrete categories: "colonial" racism, which generally originated in the colonies and constitutes the racism most of us would recognize today, and anti-Semitism. However, it must be noted that these two categories do overlap at points and cannot be seen as entirely separately.
The primary weakness is that central and eastern Europe is not covered extensively, except for perhaps anti-Semitism in Russia, parts of Germany, and small sections on Poland and Hungary. The Balkans are not discussed at all. I still have many questions about views of race in eastern Europe, especially in the wake of the massive refugee crisis of 2015. This leads me to my next point.
This book is dated. Although MacMaster is a bit older now, I would sincerely appreciate it if he could issue a second edition of this book. A new chapter on racism in Europe in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis, and the "crisis" of multiculturalism (which, in my opinion, is profoundly overstated) would add a great deal of contemporary relevance to this work.
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