- In November, the University of Minnesota held a symposium in honor of the birth of the famed anatomist, Vesalius, in which four speakers were asked to speak on issues related to the history of early modern medicine. The symposium was organized by Jole Shackelford; co-sponsored by the Wangensteen Historical Library, the HSTM Program, the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, and the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology; and hosted at the Wagensteen Historical Library, which currently has a Vesalius exhibit on display (until May 8, 2015!) that you should check out if you're nearby!
- Unfortunately, few of us in the program tweet and even then, one had to be out of town and one had to leave halfway through, leaving only me to livetweet through the entire program, so you have to bear with me for a while!
- 1. Michael McVaugh, University of North Carolina, “A Medieval Surgeon's Anatomy.”
2. Jole Shackelford, University of Minnesota, “Andreas Vesalius as Surgeon: Revisiting the authorship of Chirurgia Magna (1568).”
3. Susan Lawrence, Ohio State University, “Working Words: Dissection, Surgery and Clinical Medicine in Eighteenth-Century London.”
4. Myriam Nafte, McMaster University, “Institutional Bodies: Identity, Narrative and the Undisposed Dead.” 
"Visualizing the Body" symposium begins shortly! Follow @jnickrand, me or #VesaliusUMN for live-tweeting! #histSTM http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/news/2014/oct8/vesalius-symposium …First Talk:
About to begin the Culpepper Symposium on Vesalius's legacy and anatomy #VesaliusUMN- First up, Michael McVaugh of UNC-Chapel Hill, "A Medieval Surgeon's Anatomy" #VesaliusUMN
- Here is Michael McVaugh's faculty homepage: http://history.unc.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/michael-mcvaugh/ … #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: People at early universities given authority to define their fields, including medicine #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Medieval society was "medicalized"-society was transferring authority to uni-trained men in madness,etc, not surgery #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: As univs. adopted Galen, Avicenna, tensions rose between academic physicians and surgeons who were not in unis #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Medieval medi=physiology not anatomy. Surgeons argued necessity of anatomy, Text based anatomy for surgeons in 1270 #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Though learned physicians in 13th c. incorporated anatomy into their knowledge, they didn't do much w/ it in practice #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Surgeons like Lanfranc of Milan, read Galen to claim their own med history, modeling themselves on academic physicians #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Surgeons co-opted academic medicine through introducing human dissection into universities #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Galenic med built around physiology, highlighted importance of knowing function. #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Mondino's 1316 anatomy text used as a cut-by-cut handbook by universities in their dissections #VesaliusUMN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondino_de_Liuzzi …
- How appropriate and timely during Michael McVaugh's lecture! #VesaliusUMN "@Medievalists Surgery in the 14th Century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/19/surgery-14th-century/ …"
- McVaugh: Mondino doesn't describe organs physically (the dissector would see it himself), but describes the functions #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: tl;dr: Mondino knows what's up. #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Medieval anatomy 2-D, surgeon's purpose was philosophical understanding of body #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Mondino argued anatomy helped w/ diagnosis. colic on L hurts less than on R b/c material is closer to elimination #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Mondino discuss body systems separately like Lanfranc. involves recognizing spatial relationships #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: At universities, profs of anatomy were paid way less than practicing physicians. Significant of status & importance? #VesaliusUMN
- McVaugh: Surgeons soon began to develop 3D anatomy, learning full purpose of body parts #VesaliusUMN
