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SUMMARY:Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education - Sietske Fr
 ansen (CRASSH)
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:How did seventeenth-century physicians make use of images and 
 other visual material within their profession? More specifically\, what ro
 le was assigned to images in the process of acquiring and memorizing knowl
 edge as part of medical education at an early modern university? While pub
 lications such as Vesalius' _De humani corporis fabrica_ (1536) and Johann
  Remmelin's 'flap book' _Catoptrum microcosmicum_ (1619) contained anatomi
 cal images that attained iconic status\, further research is required to m
 ore fully comprehend how these books and their images fitted into the broa
 der framework of early modern medical education. Furthermore\, in addition
  to the illustrations from famous works on anatomy\, other medical textboo
 ks relied upon diagrams to convey information. Employing a small body of m
 aterial consisting of student notebooks\, lecture notes and texts that des
 cribe teaching circumstances\, this paper aims to understand how visual to
 ols complemented and supplemented texts in imparting medical learning to e
 arly modern physicians. For this paper\, I will focus upon the English con
 text and attempt to demonstrate how a judicious interpretation of such mat
 erial leads to some answers to these questions.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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