The author discusses signal 



events, not so much from 



the standpoint of the indi- 

 vidual structures which 

 were discovered from time 

 to time during the renais- 

 sance of anatomy, but in 

 terms of its drama and 

 struggle to maintain its 

 in the hierarchy of 

 subjects taught in medical 

 schools. 



A. M. LASSEK 



M.D., Ph.D. 



Department of Anatomy 



Boston University 



School of Medicine 



Boston, Massachusetts 



HUMAN DISSECTION 



Its Drama and Struggle 



THE STORY OF 



TWO GREAT 



OPPOSING AND 



DIVIDED , HUMAN 



FORCES, -- 



neither of which has 



been able to win a 



total victory. 



Brings the great mass of 

 knowledge regarding the role 

 of human dissection in the med- 

 ical profession into a coherent , 

 historical pe rspective . 



Much of it 1 - . . 



nt of cadavers , a 

 problem which is universally 

 T more acute. 



CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER 



