PART 1. Dissection as Theatre: Rembrandt and the Anatomy Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age
In this first of two podcasts I set the political and economic scene of the Netherlands as it emerged from the 80 Years War with Spain. In the period between 1600 and 1700 over one million paintings w...
19 Mars 202153min
ANSWERS TO THE HEAD AND NECK QUIZ NUMBER 1
ANSWERS, DISCUSSION AND EXPLANATION TO THE HEAD AND NECK QUIZ (No.1).
7 Mars 202135min
The Birth of Science and the Philosophy of Anatomy - The History of Anatomy
This podcast explains the debate in the dissecting halls during the Renaissance and beyond between Galenists and Cartesians. William Harvey (1578-1657) had developed his new experimentation as the met...
26 Feb 202152min
INFRATEMPORAL AND PTERYGOPALATINE FOSSAE - EXPLAINED
This podcast describes the boundaries and approach to the infratemporal and pterygopalatine fossae and the entry and exit chambers of the latter as well as the contents: Includes a discussion of the m...
24 Feb 20211h 4min
HEAD AND NECK QUIZ NO. 1
FIRST HEAD AND NECK QUIZ. Multiple Choice format. There are 15 questions. Some questions may have multiple answers that are correct. These questions have been posed in order to appreciate whether you ...
23 Feb 202114min
Revolutionizing Dissection: From Galen to Vesalius
In this podcast I discuss the milieu into which the Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) arrived. Paris lagged well behind Padua in dissection skills and Vesalius introduced the radical idea t...
18 Feb 20211h 29min
Part 2: The Anatomization of Art: Anatomic Realism and the Dissecting Habits of Leonardo and Michelangelo
Part 2 of the Anatomization of Art considers how differences in the personality of Leonardo and Michelangelo influenced their ability to dissect the corpse. By the end for Leonardo there was more lege...
9 Feb 202146min
BRAINSTEM NUCLEI AND THE CRANIAL NERVES
ANATOMY HEAD AND NECK 6 In this podcast I discuss the brain stem and its ascending/descending tract arrangement in broad terms and a bit about the nuclei such as the nucleus ambiguus and the nucleus...
4 Feb 20211h 29min
