Anatomy of Observation: From the Academie royale de la Chirurgie to the Salons of Denis Diderot.

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: Jackson, Dianah Leigh | Copyright information

This article excavates new ways of observing that developed with surgery's rise as a profession in an effort to counter what has traditionally been characterized as the Enlightenment bias toward vision. From the 1740's to the early 1780's eighteenth century surgical science was a discipline in transition. No longer an artisan craft, but not yet what the medical historian Toby Gelfand has called the "new science" that would be the bedrock of the post-revolutionary medical university, surgery...

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