TY - BOOK ID - 47072866 TI - Towards the authority of Vesalius : studies on medicine and the human body from antiquity to the renaissance and beyond AU - Gielen, Erika AU - Goyens, Michèle AU - Godderis, Jan AU - Bazin-Tacchella, Sylvie AU - Cazes, Hélène AU - Cellamare, Davide AU - Brepols PY - 2018 SN - 9782503579146 9782503579153 2503579140 2503579159 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - History of human medicine KW - Vesalius, Andreas KW - Antiquity KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Anatomie KW - Geschiedenis KW - Anatomy KW - Anatomists KW - History, Ancient KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 KW - Early Modern History (Medicine) KW - Early Modern History of Medicine KW - Early Modern Medicine KW - History of Medicine, Early Modern KW - History, Early Modern KW - Medicine, Early Modern KW - Early Modern History KW - Early Modern Histories (Medicine) KW - Histories, Early Modern (Medicine) KW - History, Early Modern (Medicine) KW - History, Early Modern 1451 1600 KW - Modern Histories, Early (Medicine) KW - Modern History, Early KW - Modern History, Early (Medicine) KW - Modern Medicine, Early KW - Ancient History (Medicine) KW - Ancient History of Medicine KW - History of Medicine, Ancient KW - Medicine, Ancient History KW - Ancient History KW - Ancient Histories (Medicine) KW - Ancient History Medicine KW - Ancient History Medicines KW - Histories, Ancient (Medicine) KW - History Medicine, Ancient KW - History Medicines, Ancient KW - History, Ancient (Medicine) KW - Medicine Ancient History KW - Medicines, Ancient History KW - history KW - Vesalius, Andreas, KW - Vesal, Andreas KW - Vesale, André KW - Vezalij, Andrej UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:47072866 AB - The authority of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) in reviving human anatomy is without any doubt a landmark in the history of science. Yet his breakthrough was inconceivable without his predecessor's works. Moreover, later on, his own legacy would not remain untouched or undisputed. The question of scientific authority is not new; however it has hardly been tackled in a multidisciplinary and diachronic way. This volume brings together contributions from international scholars working in the field of theology, art history, philosophy, history of science and historical linguistics. Its goal is to contextualize and analyse the complex interaction between dogma and authority on the one hand and empirical progress on the other, both in the development of anatomy and the views on the human body, mainly before Vesalius's time. Indeed, it is not the volume's aim to focus exclusively on the role of Vesalius nor to assess the concept of medical and anatomical authority in a comprehensive way. Avoiding to repeat insights from the history of science as such, it intends to put old views to the test, and to bring up new questions and answers from diverse perspectives concerning the work of Vesalius and his predecessors and successors, by presenting different case studies from Antiquity to the Early Modern Times. ER -