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NEUROSURGERY
Volume 67, Issue 3, Pages 799-810Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000383135.92953.A3
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Cadaver dissection; History of medicine; Neuroanatomy; Vivisection
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ALTHOUGH INTEREST IN the art of dissection and vivisection has waxed and waned through-out the ages, the past century has seen it accepted as commonplace in medical schools across the country. No other practice in medicine has contributed more to the understanding of neuroanatomy and the neurosciences as dissection of the human cadaver, the origins of which are widely documented to have been in Alexandrian Greece. This article chronicles the fascinating and often controversial use of dissection and vivisection in these fields through the ages, beginning with Herophilus of Alexandria, among the first systematic dissectors in the history of Western medicine. The authors comment on its role in the development of modern neurosurgery and conclude with remarks about use of this educational tool today in the United States.
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