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December 19, 2005 Volume 14 No. 24

Not Your Standard Textbook

Today, a class in gross anatomy --the study of how bones, organs and tissues make up the human body --is a rite of passage for first year medical students. And yes, it includes the humbling experience of dissecting a human body. But it has not always been that way.

“From the fall of the Roman Empire through most of the Medieval period, dissection of the human body was prohibited in Europe,” says Edward Halperin, vice dean of the School...

First-year medical students at Duke cautiously examine drawings of the human body in Bernard Siegfried Albinus’s Tabulae ossium humanorum (The Study of Human Bones), written in 1753. The occasion was the visit of the gross anatomy class to Duke’s Trent Collection to view anatomical texts and drawings that date back to 1532.

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