Hunter’s The Gravid Uterus aimed to transform obstetrics through realism ... The most extreme more modern example is Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy. Widely regarded as one ...

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Laszlo B. Tamas, neurosurgeon: My medical school was McGill in Montreal. We had nice, modern medical science and administrative buildings, but the ...

IT WAS murder that finally did for the resurrectionists. By the 19th century a growing and increasingly scientific medical profession needed plenty of corpses on which to learn. But the fear that ...

A new study delves into the evolutionary history of pregnancy, identifying hundreds of genes that evolved to be turned on or off in the uterus of humans during the early part of pregnancy, in contrast ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Over the last couple of months, students in the Medical Academy at the Whitmer Career and Technology Center have brought their books to life with a new anatomy table. "It's definitely ...

They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their bodies have become the foundation of anatomical ...