Florentine anatomical models and the challenge of medical authority in late-eighteenth-century Vienna

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Anna Maerker

Abstract

This paper investigates the reception of a set of Florentine anatomical wax models on display at the medico-surgical academy Josephinum in late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Celebrated in Florence as tools of public enlightenment, in the Habsburg capital the models were criticised by physicians, who regarded the Josephinum and its surgeons as a threat to their medical authority. The controversy surrounding these models from the empire's periphery temporarily destabilised the relationship between surgeons and physicians in the Austrian capital. The debate on the utility of the Tuscan anatomical models in Vienna highlights the fact that the centre of the Habsburg empire was by no means medically homogeneous, and that the implementation of reforms could be as difficult to achieve in the capital as in the provinces.

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Dec 1, 1988·Journal of Health and Social Behavior·F W Hafferty
Mar 1, 1983·History of Science; an Annual Review of Literature, Research and Teaching·S Schaffer

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