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• Title:Andreas Vesalius : the making, the madman, and the myth / Stephen N. Joffe.
  
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• Author/Creator:Joffe, Stephen N.
  
• Published/Created:Bloomington, IN : Persona Pub., ©2009.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY Memorial RoomWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ100.V575 J644 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.
  
• Medical Subjects:Biographies as Topic.
  Anatomy--Biography.
  History, 15th Century.
  History of Medicine.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Description:xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:This is a journey of a sixteenth-century anatomist who was the foremost pioneer of modern anatomy. The author looks at his life in the context of the Renaissance period; it explores how war caused him to change his course of study and become the revolutionary anatomist known today; it looks at his publication: De Humani Corporus Fabrica published in Basel in 1543, with its companion volume the Epitome, began the modern observational science and research.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references pages 209-222.
  
• ISBN:9781604815603
  1604815604