Additional Reading

 

ORIGINAL SOURCES USED IN THIS SITE:

        Avicenna.  A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna.  Trans.  O. Cameron Gruner (New York:  AMS Press, 1973).

        da Carpi, Berengario.  A Short Introduction to Anatomy.  Trans.  L. R. Lind and ed. Paul G. Roofe (New York:  Kraus Reprint Co., 1969).

        Corner, George W.  Anatomical Texts of the Earlier Middle Ages (Washington, D.C:  Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1927) 

          Descartes, Rene.  Treatise on Man.  In The Philosophical Writings of Rene Descartes.  (Cambridge, U. K.:  Cambridge University Press, 1985), vol. 1, pp. 99-107.

        Galen.   Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body.  Trans.  Margaret Tallmadge May (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1968).

        Harvey, William.  Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy: An Annotated Translation of Prelectiones anatomiae universalis.  Ed. and trans.  C. D. O'Malley, F. N. L. Poynter and K. F. Russell (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1961).

        Hippocrates.  Places in Man.  Ed. and trans. Elizabeth M. Clark (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1998).

        Lind, L. R., ed. and trans.  Studies in Pre-Vesalian Anatomy (Philadelphia:  American Philosophica Society, 1975).

        Maimonides, Moses.  The Medical Aphorisms of Moses Maimonides.  Ed. and trans.  Fred Rosner and Suessman Munter (New York:  Yeshiva University Press, 1970).  2 vols.

        Moir, John.  Anatomical Education in a Scottish University, 1620:  An Annotated Translation of the Lecture Notes of John Moir.  Ed. and trans.  R. K. French (Aberdeen:  Equipress, 1975).

        Steno, Nicolaus.  Lectures on the Anatomy of the Brain.  Ed. Gustav Scherz (Copenhagen:  Arnold Busk, 1960).

        da Vinci, Leonardo.  Leonardo da Vinci on the Human Body:  The Anatomical, Physiological, and Embryological Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.  Ed. J. B. de C. M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley (New York:  Crown Publishers, 1982).

        Vesalius, Andreas.  The Epitome of Andreas Vesalius (New York:  MacMillan, 1949).

        ----------.  The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius.  Ed.  J. B. de C. M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley (New York:  Dover, 1973).

        Wharton, Thomas.  Adenographia (London, 1656).

        Willis, Thomas.  The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves.  Ed. William Feindel (Montreal:  McGill University Press, 1966), 2 vols.

SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF ANATOMY AND THE BODY

        Carlino, Andrea.  Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning.  (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1999).

        Cunningham, Andrew.  The Anatomical Renaissance:  The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients  (Aldershot, U. K.:  Scolar Press, 1997).

        French, Roger K.  Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance (Aldershot, U. K.:  Ashgate, 1999).

        Hillman, David, and Carla Mazzio, eds.  The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe.  (New York:  Routledge, 1997).

        Laqueur, Thomas.  Making Sex:  Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud.  (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1990).

        Lindberg, David C.  Theories of Vision from al-Kind to Kepler (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1976).

        Park, Katharine.  "The Criminal and Saintly Body:  Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy."  Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): 1-33.

        ----------.  "The Life of the Corpse:  Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe."  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 50 (1995): 111-132.

        Pinto-Correia, Clara.  The Ovary of Eve:  Egg and Sperm and Preformation (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1997).

        Roberts, K. B. and J. D. W. Tomlinson.  The Fabric of the Body:  European Traditions of Anatomical Illustration. (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1992).

        Savage-Smith, Emilie.  "Attitudes Towards Dissection in Medieval Islam." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 50 (1995): 67-110.

        Singer, Charles.  A Short History of Anatomy and Physiology from the Greeks to Harvey.  (New York:  Dover, 1957).

        Siraisi, Nancy.  Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1990).

        Todd, Edwin M.  The Neuroanatomy of Leonardo da Vinci (Park Ridge, IL:  American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1991).  

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