{"id":2118,"date":"2020-11-27T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:13:59","slug":"dr-kira-robison-on-medical-oddities-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/11\/27\/dr-kira-robison-on-medical-oddities-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kira Robison on Medical Oddities in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Kira Robison on Medical Oddities in History<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">As part of the Pre-Health advising workshop series \u201cPeriodic Ponderings,\u201d students were invited into the world of anatomical history as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/directory\/tpf333-history-kira-robison\/tpf333\">Dr. Robison<\/a> gave a talk on the varied ways that human gross anatomy has been taught in the past through seemingly macabre anatomical collections. This presentation concentrates on the justifications for anatomical knowledge in the pre-modern world, as well as the ways in which students and physicians in Europe managed to create pedagogical opportunities in the spaces between cadaver dissections from the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to the 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries. Recording posted with a selected list of museum websites for further exploration in the description.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Periodic Ponderings: Medical Oddities in History\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLM_1SFTyVs?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Pre-Health advising workshop series \u201cPeriodic Ponderings,\u201d students were invited into the world of anatomical history as Dr. Robison gave a talk on the varied ways that human gross anatomy has been taught in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/11\/27\/dr-kira-robison-on-medical-oddities-in-history\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35044,93516],"class_list":{"0":"post-2118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faculty-news","8":"tag-faculty-news","9":"tag-kira-robison","10":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Kira Robison on Medical Oddities in History - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/11\/27\/dr-kira-robison-on-medical-oddities-in-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Kira Robison on Medical Oddities in History - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As part of the Pre-Health advising workshop series \u201cPeriodic Ponderings,\u201d students were invited into the world of anatomical history as Dr. Robison gave a talk on the varied ways that human gross anatomy has been taught in the past.  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