![]() Furthermore, both " realist " anatomical sketches past and present and state-of-the-art medical simulators do not so much contribute to the advancement (and dissemination) of body knowledge as they represent, reproduce and thus tacitly reinforce societal values and understandings as framed within the anatomo-medical discipline. Like in the arts, realism in anatomy is a technique which disavows its epistemic condition by conventional fiat, and traditionally convincingly so. Nonetheless, realism is anything but objective – itself a deeply problematic concept – or value-free. ![]() It has been noticed of late that anatomical representations in any medium have always claimed to depict the actual, living human body in realistic visual terms. ![]()
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