Malleable Anatomies - Lucia (Associate Professor and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar Chair in the History of Medicine Dacome - Bog

An account of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy, showing how anatomical models became an authoritative source of medical knowledge, but also informed social, cultural, and political developments at the crossroads of medical learning, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour spectacle.