Monstrosity’s anatomy: the figure of the monster as the object of a modern medical-anatomical look
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2015.14Keywords:
Monster, Anatomy, Descartes, Hermaphrodites, MedicineAbstract
This paper presents an analysis of the monster category on medical research in the modernity. This analysis is based on the development of human anatomy in the sixteenth century and in the study of the physiological relationship between body and organs in the XIX. The Cartesian anatomical research and the naturalization of monster category will open the way to the physiological view of life as a prelude to legal and social medicine.
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