conclusions considering the recent advances in medical curriculum it seems that teaching anatomy should be improved by shifting to new methods in teaching and evaluation. results our findings showed that 82% of iranian anatomists use lecture and 83.5% of them believe dissection is the best method for teaching anatomy. according to our study, anatomists in iran agree that clinical points and app...

ANATOMY has been considered to have had its beginning in the Egyptian practice of embalming the dead, and indeed the practice of preserving dead bodies from corruptioni could hardly fail to excite some interest in the structure of the humanl body. But little real anatomy could have been acquired by this means, for the ceremonies of embalming, as told by Herodotus (c. 400 B.C.) and Diodorus Sicu...

There is no better way to introduce this delightful book by Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1946-66, than to quote the opening sentences of the author's own short preface: "Histories of anatomy exist in sufficient quantity, so this essay revolves around two questions only: What have artists done to record dissections and so help anatomists to see? And what, in t...

The content of the article is a verbatim report speech under Title «100 years Russian anatomy (on anniversary founding Scientific Society Anatomists)», included in scientific program All-Russian and Practical Conference with international participation «Morphological Aspects Medicine Biology», dedicated to 65th Anniversary Department Human Anatomy Medical Institute Ammosov North-Eastern Federal...

Although it is known that anatomists working in Germany during the Third Reich have used bodies of victims of the National Socialist (NS) regime for dissection and research, a comprehensive history of the anatomy in the Third Reich has not yet been written. Recent studies of the history of German anatomy departments during this time period provide material for a first outline of the subject mat...