The knowledge and interpretation of the practice of anatomy in the Renaissance have recently undergone a profound change. To a large extent, this is the result of new directions taken in the social and cultural history of medicine since the late 1970s. In the last decade, several important works have been published, which are undeniable evidence of this historiographical change. However, there has as yet been no attempt to produce a synthetic view of all this new work, in which there is not always agreement. Such a synthesis would undoubtedly produce an interpretation of Renaissance anatomy very different from the traditional one.
Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 298, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-4828-6. The History of Medicine in Context.