Editing Human skeleton (section)

===Hellenistic world===
The study of bones in ancient Greece started under [[Ptolemaic kings]] due to their link to Egypt. [[Herophilos]], through his work by studying dissected human corpses in Alexandria, is credited to be the pioneer of the field. His works are lost but are often cited by notable persons in the field such as [[Galen]] and [[Rufus of Ephesus]]. Galen himself did little dissection though and relied on the work of others like Marinus of Alexandria,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rocca|first1=Julius|title=A Note on Marinus of Alexandria|journal=Journal of the History of the Neurosciences|date=9 August 2010|volume=11|issue=3|pages=282–285|doi=10.1076/jhin.11.3.282.10386|pmid=12481479|s2cid=37476347}}</ref> as well as his own observations of gladiator cadavers and animals.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Charlier|first1=Philippe|last2=Huynh-Charlier|first2=Isabelle|last3=Poupon|first3=Joël|last4=Lancelot|first4=Eloïse|last5=Campos|first5=Paula F.|last6=Favier|first6=Dominique|last7=Jeannel|first7=Gaël-François|last8=Bonati|first8=Maurizio Rippa|last9=Grandmaison|first9=Geoffroy Lorin de la|last10=Herve|first10=Christian|title=Special report: Anatomical pathology A glimpse into the early origins of medieval anatomy through the oldest conserved human dissection (Western Europe, 13th c. A.D.)|journal=Archives of Medical Science|date=2014|volume=2|issue=2|pages=366–373|doi=10.5114/aoms.2013.33331|pmc=4042035|pmid=24904674}}</ref> According to [[Katherine Park]], in medieval Europe dissection continued to be practiced, contrary to the popular understanding that such practices were taboo and thus completely banned.<ref>{{cite web|title=Debunking a myth|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/04/debunking-a-myth/|website=Harvard Gazette|date=7 April 2011 |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> The practice of ''holy autopsy'', such as in the case of [[Clare of Montefalco]] further supports the claim.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hairston|first1=Julia L.|last2=Stephens|first2=Walter|title=The body in early modern Italy|date=2010|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|isbn=9780801894145}}</ref> Alexandria continued as a center of anatomy under Islamic rule, with [[Ibn Zuhr]] a notable figure. Chinese understandings are divergent, as the closest corresponding concept in the medicinal system seems to be the [[Meridian (Chinese medicine)|meridians]], although given that [[Hua Tuo]] regularly performed surgery, there may be some distance between medical theory and actual understanding.