The pedagogical value of autopsy

• Main Authors: Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos (Author), Luiz Otávio Savassi Rocha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Knowledge of human anatomy was acquired through dissections of the human body that may have begun as long as 4000 years ago, in Babylonian times. Later documentation was in Egyptian times (3000 BC-1600 BC), as exemplified with the Ebers and other papyri. Around 300 BC, the Greek physician, Herophilu...