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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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Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
By 1858 Henry Gray (1826-1861) and his illustrator Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897) got together and designed Gray’s Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical. The illustrations eschewed the use of Baroque and complex imagery and made the pictures schematic and precise with in situ labelling of structures without complicated arrows and proxy labels. Very soon the book became the most famous and popular text on anatomy on both sides of the Atlantic and it has been in print ever since. Gray’s became iconic not only over its textual style but over the Carter imagery which in the latest incarnations has now been abandoned. The new Gray’s under Susan Standring is a mix of gross anatomy, microscopic histology, pathology, molecular biology, 3D CGI imagery and CR-ROMS. As a result, Gray’s IS Anatomy.
But so little is known about Gray himself as he died from smallpox at the age of 34.
This podcast considers the formation of Gray’s book and the immediate aftermath following his death.
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