Nowadays, many professionals are teaching anatomy, but they don't identify or they have never practiced in practical classes, dissections, the experience of an anatomist. Many professionals are from other discilines, without total dedication varied activities that anatomists produce. In this way, I would like to know more about this.
Dear Edivaldo !
Thank you for your superbly beautiful question, to which I imediately rush to answer.
To provide a shortest straight answer,
«I am an Anatomist, sir. But as an Anatomist, I love to teach Anatomy to fresh medical students, as I have been doing for over 25 years, now...»
In fact, as an "Anatomist", my Ethymology Dictionary indicates that I "DISSECT", or "cut" to investigate the inner body.
[From the Chambers/Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology: Pg.32 «anatomy - Before 1398, in Trevina's translation of Bartholomew's De Proprietatibus Rerum, the noun is borrowed through Old French anatomie and Late Latin anatomia, from the Greek anatomé dissection, related to anatémnein to cut up, dissect (ana up + témnein to cut) ]
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anatomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy
Thus, as to me, being an "Anatomist" means that I dissect, I am currently very happy to teach Anatomy to several generations of Medical practitioners through human dissection.
Of course, nowadays, in Modern Medical Education, with the heavy costs and the Internationally Legal demands, there has been a recent worldwide scarceness of fully legalized human corpses available for teaching purposes. Many "alternative methods" of teaching Anatomy have modernly become trendy, to teach Anatomy.
Nevertheless, we should struggle to develop better embalming procedures, without the use of Formaldehyde - which as you know, is one of the 9 classified cancerigenous/oncotoxic substances -; Furthermore, we should struggle to keep fully legalized human donation lists for dissection teaching purposes; and we should struggle to demonstrate the utmost importance of dissection and Anatomy, as the fundamental tool to study Human Medicine, even as we cross the so-called "modern Molecular Era". We have been struggling so, at the Lisbon Nova Medical School. (our human cadaveric donation list has now surpassed the number of 3000 donations!)
This is my strong belief, and this is my struggle, to try and collaborate to build a better future for Medical Sciences.
Abraço Lusitano!
M.
Dear Maria,
thank you for your words. I agree with everything that you said.
To be a human anatomy professor, in my conception, we have to be anatomist to teach with property. Generally, many professors have to give classes in many instituitions and others disciplines, unfortunately. This is due to several factors, one of them is the scarceness of corpses that it's a big problem. But other one is professors that never dissect a corpses and give classes, that is, they give class only thought reading books to organize the classes. They have never gone to a laboratory dissect.
Let see what think our colleagues!!!
Abraços nordestinos.
Edivaldo X.
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