Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- The Fabric of the Human Body (1543) / Andreas Vesalius -- Andreas Vesalius' First Public Anatomy at Bologna, 1540: An Eyewitness Report / Baldasar Heseler -- Journal (1554) / Felix Platter -- An Anatomical Study on the Motion of the Heart and the Blood in Animals (1628) / William Harvey -- The Generation of Animals / Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) -- Malleus Maleficarum (ca. 1486) / Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger -- Remarks on Masturbation (1835) / "W." -- Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for Girls (1874) / Edward Hammond Clarke -- Do Women Require Mental and Bodily Rest during Menstruation? …”

“…Chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: a voyage across time -- An ancient Egyptian physician: the dawn of neurology -- Hippocrates: the brain as the organ of mind -- Galen: the birth of experimentation -- Andreas Vesalius: the new "human" neuroanatomy -- René Descartes: the mind-body problem -- Thomas Willis: the functional organization of the brain -- Luigi Galvani: electricity and the nerves -- Franz Joseph Gall: the cerebral organs of mind -- Paul Broca: cortical localization and cerebral dominace -- David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: the experimentalists map the cerebral cortex -- Jean-Martin Charcot: clinical neurology comes of age -- Santiago Ramón y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine -- Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system -- Edgar D. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From abandonment to the idea of healing -- The Doctor-patient relationship -- The Hippocratic corpus -- The Discovery of microscopic life -- The Medical encounter and the history of the present illness -- Galenic medicine -- "On the fabric of the human body" by Andreas Vesalius -- The Physical examination -- To see for oneself at the autopsy -- "On the motion of the heart" by William Harvey -- Diagnostic x-ray examinations -- "Observations and experiments on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion" by William Beaumont -- "Nervism" and the integration of the organ systems -- "Chemical messengers" and the discovery of hormones -- The Germ theory of disease -- Smallpox vaccination -- Aspirin -- The Initiation of insulin therapy -- Florence Nightingale and modern nursing -- The Development of sewage systems -- Public works and health -- Paul Ehrlich's "Magic Bullets" -- Eradication of smallpox by the World Health Organization -- Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetics -- Friedrich Miescher discovers DNA in pus -- Oswald Theodore Avery uncovers the function of DNA -- The Structure of DNA is elucidated by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin -- The Genetic Code -- Tropical Medicine -- Microscopes -- The Fool of pest --…”

“…Theaters of Anatomy focuses on the post-Vesalian era, the often-overlooked period in the history of anatomy after the famed Andreas Vesalius left the University of Padua. Drawing on the letters and testimony of Padua's medical students, Klestinec charts a new history of anatomy in the Renaissance, one that characterizes the role of the anatomy theater and reconsiders the pedagogical debates and educational structure behind human dissection…”

“…Combinadas con textos detallados que explican su importancia, las ilustraciones de este libro presentan el trabajo de científicos pioneros como Andreas Vesalius, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie y Rosalind Franklin. …”