scholarly journals Connoisseurship and the Communication of Anatomical Knowledge: The Case of William Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733)

2016 ◽  
pp. 271-289
Author(s):  
Alexander Wragge-Morley
Keyword(s):  
Anatomical Knowledge

Prospero’s Tools

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Dacome
Keyword(s):  
Major Work ◽  
Anatomical Knowledge ◽  
Cult Of Saints

Chapter 1 considers the circumstances underpinning Pope Benedict XIV’s patronage of anatomy and anatomical modelling in Bologna and antiquarian display in Rome. It situates the pope’s support of anatomy in the wider context of his religious pursuits as an assessor of sanctity who saw in anatomy a powerful tool for identifying signs of holy embodiment. In particular, the chapter explores Lambertini’s patronage of anatomical modelling and practice in light of the role he attributed to anatomical knowledge in his major work on canonization, his De servorum Dei beatificatione et canonizatione beatorum (1734–8). While doing so, it construes Lambertini’s support for anatomy and anatomical displays against the broader historical canvas of post-Tridentine concerns about the cult of saints and relics, the authority of the pope, and the pontiff’s claims to jurisdiction over both the temporal and the spiritual realms.

Visualizing the spine using anatomical knowledge

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig W. Cornelius ◽  
Linda L. Fellingham
Keyword(s):  
Anatomical Knowledge

scholarly journals The influence of dissection on clinical anatomical knowledge for surgical needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Feigl ◽  
Andreas Sammer
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Failure Rate ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Visceral Surgery ◽  
High Failure Rate ◽  
Anatomical Knowledge ◽  
High Good ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Head Neck ◽  
Dissection Course

Abstract Purpose Due to the ongoing discussion of the usefulness of dissection on human bodies in medical curricula, we investigated the influence of anatomical knowledge collected in the dissection course and requested for modules of visceral surgery. Methods Students attending the dissection course of topographic anatomy had to answer a questionnaire of 22 questions with focus on anatomical knowledge required for visceral surgical modules. Failure was defined as 13 or fewer correct answers, success categorized as high, good or moderate. The same questionnaire was handed out to 245 students prior to the module on visceral surgery. Students provided information on which regions they had dissected during the course or prior to the module. The results were compared to the result of a written Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) exam of the module visceral surgery (n = 160 students) with an unannounced primary focus on anatomy. Results Students who dissected the truncal regions of the human body succeeded in answering the questionnaire with high success. Students dissecting regions of the Head/Neck or Limbs had a high failure rate, and none of them reached the “high” success level. In the MCQ exam, students dissecting truncal regions had a high success rate, while those who had not dissected or who dissected the Head/Neck or Limbs had a high failure rate. Conclusion Dissections support and improve the required knowledge for surgical modules. For the visceral surgical module, students dissecting the region prior to the module greatly benefited. Therefore, entire human body dissection assumes to be preferable.

Distributed corporeality: Anatomy, knowledge and the technological reconfiguration of bodies in ballet

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 869-890
Author(s):  
Sophie Merit Müller
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
The Body ◽  
Technical Improvement ◽  
Anatomical Knowledge ◽  
Classical Ballet ◽  
Anatomy Knowledge

Various specialist cultures configure bodies as complex technological devices. We know little about how exactly this is done. I focus on one of these cultures, classical ballet, to praxeologically reconstruct the conceptual, situational and material configuration of bodies as particular instruments. The technologization of the body is closely intertwined with the scientification of the practice – its ladenness with scientific knowledge about the body and an elaborate apparatus for the production of bodies. When anatomical knowledge and didactics intertwine in ballet class, this facilitates an opening of the black box ‘body’ for technical improvement. ‘A body’ becomes a plurality of (in this case, anatomically distinguished) actants. This distributed corporeality suggests that ‘the body’ is an assemblage that becomes apparent as such in moments of its modification. The empirical case as well as the analytical approach here give reason to reconsider the distinction between humans and non-humans that still prevails in actor-network theory and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Anatomic considerations for C2 pedicle screw placement: the use of computerized tomography measurements

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-83
Author(s):  
Adebukoa Onibokun ◽  
Simona Bistazzoni ◽  
Marco Sassi ◽  
Larry T. Khoo
Keyword(s):  
Pedicle Screw ◽  
Computerized Tomography ◽  
Preoperative Planning ◽  
Screw Placement ◽  
Pedicle Screw Placement ◽  
C2 Pedicle Screw ◽  
Anatomical Knowledge ◽  
Axial Ct ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Pedicle Width

OBJECTIVE: more detailed anatomical knowledge of the C2 pedicle is required to optimize and minimize the risk of screw placement. The aim of this study was to evaluate the linear and angular dimensions of the true C2 pedicle using axial CT. METHODS: ninety three patients (47 males, 46 females mean age 48 years) who had cervical spinal CT imaging performed were evaluated for this study. Axial images of the C2 pedicle were selected and the following pedicle parameters were determined: pedicle width (PW, the mediolateral diameter of the pedicle isthmus, perpendicular to the pedicle axis) and pedicle transverse angle (PTA, that is, the angle between the pedicle axis and the midline of the vertebral body). RESULTS: the overall mean pedicle width was 5.8 1.2mm. The mean pedicle width in males (6.01.3mm) was greater than that in the female subjects (5.6 1.1mm). This difference was not found to be statistically significant (p=.6790). The overall mean pedicle transverse angle was 43.93.9 degrees. The mean PTA in males was 43.23.8 degrees, while that in females was 44.73.7 degrees. CONCLUSION: preoperative planning is absolutely mandatory, particularly in determining not only screw trajectory, but in analyzing individual patient anatomy and reception to a C2 pedicle screw.

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