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 Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:00 am Post subject: Exquisite, Disturbing Objects From 500 Years of Human Anato |
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For centuries people have been simultaneously fascinated by what's inside the human body and squeamish about getting close enough to a cadaver to actually find out. "There's this tension between the desire to know, and what it takes to get that knowledge," said David Jones, a historian of science at Harvard Medical School and one of the curators of a new exhibit that illustrates some of the ways in which people have wrestled with that tension through the ages. Science, culture, and religion have all played a role.
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