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Welcome to a new and exciting Podcast called ANATOPOD designed to teach anatomy. ANATOPOD aims not just to teach anatomy well to a high and practical level but also to introduce the history of anatomy and dissection of the cadaver. I appreciate that anatomy is a visual tradition but it wasn't always like that. In the Renaissance, anatomy was taught from textbooks written by the Greek Galen in the first century A.D. Perhaps it might seem unusual to revert anatomy teaching to an aural basis but it is recognized too that in this modern age anatomy departments in universities all over the world are dispensing with their raision d’être, the cadaver, replacing it with surrogates and models. We still do not know the effects of this change on the care of our patients but what we do know is that the cadaver is part of our death culture as much as it touches so many other aspects of society at large.
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
This podcast traces the beginnings of X-rays as the new objective medium to demonstrate the interior of the body, its latest transparency that has given way to the ultrasound, the CAT scan, the MRI and the PET scan. With each there had been a rapid public acceptance but also a social expectation of use that has seen the more complex machinery devolve into more peripheral environments somewhat at the expense of the trusted clinical examination of the patient first defined in its exactness by Boerhaave and Bichat and by Laennec’ s invention of the stethoscope.
Photography in replacing the anatomical artist relied on its unmodified precision but the newer radiological imagery depends for accuracy on post-processing of the image (its own photoshop if you will). Society is inundated with the radiological imagery of humans just as much as the leading protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, young Hans Castorp carried around the picture of his love Claudia Chauchat. In the Davos Tuberculosis sanitorium where he spent 4 years carried close to his heart was not her photograph but rather a copy of her Chest X-ray.
Featured Martha Argerich playing the Capriccio Partita in C Minor by J.S. Bach
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