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- Title
Clinical anatomy and medical education. The role of hellenistic terracotta figurines of Smyrna.
- Authors
Laios, Konstantinos; Moschos, Marilita M.; Androutsos, George
- Abstract
There has been a great controversy whether the terracotta figurines representing figures with the characteristics of disease found in Smyrna and dated at the Hellenistic period were used as models of clinical anatomy in the nearby famous in the antiquity medical school or were grotesque representations. In order to answer this problem we propose the examination of these figurines using special criteria. Every figurine should be examined separately to decide if it was a medical model, an apotropaic symbol or a portrait.
- Subjects
TEACHING models; HELLENISTIC terra-cotta figurines; MEDICAL education; HELLENISTIC antiquities; ANCIENT terra-cotta figurines; MEDICAL simulation
- Publication
Italian Journal of Anatomy & Embryology / Archivio Italiano di Anatomia Ed Embriologia, 2017, Vol 122, Issue 3, p192
- ISSN
1122-6714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13128/IJAE-22979