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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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Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
This podcast discusses the BodyWorlds exhibits of Guenther von Hagens who has channelled the old 18thC impresarios of anatomical dioramas. Von Hagens has laid a new narrative of death that has insinuated the human body (in this case the plastinated body) into the public museums but not without considerable ethical controversy. It is perhaps no accident that Germany with its dark history has proved the most popular country for von Hagens’ shows. These too have spawned much of a reinvigoration of body art which also channels the movement led by Yoko Ono in the 1960’s, that morphed into the Young British Art movement stratospherically manipulated by Damien Hirst and that has produced the anatomical hyper-realism of the Australian sculptors Ron Mueck and Patricia Piccinini. At last, sculpture has come full circle to challenge the visual supremacy of painting as the finest representation of the human form.
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I am most grateful for any contrivution to improve this important teaching podcast. Thankyou amd please enjoy your anatomy Andrew
Music J.S.Bach：Choralvorspiel "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (Awake! We are being Called!)
Arranged by Wilhelm Kempff and played by Matsumoto Nozomi
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