Have you noticed that, in Human cultures, qualitative leaps strictly relate to times when human dissection is performed?

I think, of course, of the Egyptian and ancient Greek culture, or the Renaissance times, in which Art in general, and Medical knowledge in particular, evolved in parallel with the improvements of anatomical techniques and cadaveric preservation.

Can anyone help me find more absolute facts and arguments to proceed with our quest to maintain the habit of human dissection in Modern medical curricula?

Thank you for your kind collaboration, even if you disagree... 

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And you, who say that it would be better to watch an anatomist at work than to see these drawings, you would be right, if it were possible to observe all the things which are demonstrated in such drawings in a single figure, in which you, with all your cleverness will not see nor obtain knowledge of more than a few veins, to obtain a true and perfect knowledge of which I have dissected more than ten human bodies, destroying all the other members, and removing the very minutest particles of the flesh by which these veins are surrounded, without causing them to bleed, excepting the insensible bleeding of the capillary veins; and one single body would not last long, since it was necessary to proceed with several bodies by degrees, until I came to an end and had a complete knowledge; this I repeated twice, to learn the differences. »

LEONARDO DA VINCI - Notebooks - On Anatomy

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