Word: vesalius
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...Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee, said the event and exhibition were "degrading and sensational rather than educational." But can't education and sensationalism coexist? That's certainly the way it used to be. In 1543, the same year Copernicus published his revolutionary work, De Revolutionibus, Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius published De Fabrica, a massively popular work illustrated with scores of statuesque figures serenely posing on pedestals or frolicking in nature without their skin. Vesalius was among the first to bring new discoveries about the body to the general public, and just as Copernicus helped launch...