Academic Journals In Anatomy

Anatomy, a field within the biological sciences concerned with the identification and outline of the body structures of living things. Gross anatomy involves the study of major body structures by dissection and observation and in its narrowest sense cares only with the human body .This ancient discipline reached its culmination between 1500 and 1850, by which era its material was firmly established. None of the world’s oldest civilizations dissected a person's body, which most of the people regarded with superstitious awe and related to the spirit of the departed soul. Beliefs in life after death and a disquieting uncertainty concerning the likelihood of bodily resurrection further inhibited systematic study. Owing to church prohibitions against dissection, European medicine within the Middle Ages relied upon Galen’s mixture of fact and fancy instead of on direct observation for its anatomical knowledge, though some dissections were authorized for teaching purposes. In the early 16th century, the artist Leonardo Leonardo undertook his own dissections, and his beautiful and accurate anatomical drawings cleared the way for Flemish physician Vesalius to “restore” the science of anatomy together with his monumental De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543; “The Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body”),.