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Hunters and gatherers   Evidence of knowing where to shoot to kill  
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Egyptians   First to formally study anatomy; examined the heart, lungs, liver, and GI system and thought brain was unimportant; Established as one of the oldest basic medical sciences; Descriptions of anatomy were found on papyruses from 3000-2500BC  
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Hippocrates   Greek from 460-377 BC; Father of medicine; Founder of the science of anatomy; came up with Hypocratic oath; wrote many books on anatomy  
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Hypocratic oath   to do no harm  
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Aristotle   Greek from 382-322 BC; Performed animal dissections; First to use the word “anatome”  
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“anatome”   Greek for “cutting up or taking apart”  
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Galen   (2nd Century Greek); Physiologist (Function of organs); Began Comparative anatomy  
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Comparative anatomy   Comparing anatomical structure of animals to that of humans  
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Physiologist   studies the Function of organs  
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15th Century   Leonardo da Vinci  
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Leonardo da Vinci   One of the first to correctly draw the human skeleton and other anatomical illustrations; Provided “records”  
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Middle ages and early Renaissance   Versalius; Hieronymus Fabricius; Anatomy became an objective discipline based on direct observations  
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Versalius   Wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543 AD)“Structure of the human body” “study of the human body”;  
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Hieronymus Fabricius   First to have anatomical theaters for public dissections (1537-1619)  
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17th Century   William Harvey; Human dissection became important in European medical schools; Anatomical museums established in many cities; Famous artists attended dissections for drawings – Rembrandt & Michelangelo  
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William Harvey   William “Heart” Harvey; discovered circulation  
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18th and 19th Centuries   William Hunter; Many atlases and illustrations published that depicted human bodies; Shortage of cadavers led to illegal means of obtaining specimens  
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William Hunter   introduced modern day embalming techniques  
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19th Century   British Parliament passed Anatomy Act in 1832 to provide adequate supply of corpses for medical dissection; Gray's Anatomy; People began donating their bodies to science in order to get free treatment; No longer held public dissections  
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Gray’s Anatomy   A single volume of Anatomy (1858 AD)  
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20th Century   Medical museums established; Better supplementary resources; Decline in donation of bodies to science  
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Supplementary resources in Anatomy   Prosections (a section where everything else has been removed), color images, photos, models  
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21st Century   diseases limit the availability of cadavers(Mad cow disease (Jakob Creutzfeldt disease (CJD))); 1980s – HIV and AIDS; Current ethical debates; Computer images to look at 3D images of the human body  
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Current ethical debates   Gunther von hagans – “Body world” public displays  
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illegal means of obtaining specimens   Grave robbers, Body snatchers, Murders, Bodies of executed criminals, Corpses donated by relatives in exchange for medical care  
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