Historic and Teaching Aspects of Anatomy and Cebus Genus Role in Contemporary Anatomy Aspectos Históricos y de Enseñanza de la Anatomía y el Papel del Género Cebus en la Anatomía Moderna

Tales Alexandre Aversi-FerreiraPFRIMER, G. A.; ABREU, T.; VIEIRA, V. S.; SOARES, N. P.; AVERSI-FERREIRA, R. A. G. M. F.; GRATAO, L. H. A.;NASCIMENTO, G. N. L.; NISHIJO, H. & AVERSI-FERREIRA, T. A. Historic and teaching aspects of anatomy and Cebus genusrole in contemporary anatomy. Int. J. Morphol., 30(2):607-612, 2012.SUMMARY: Anatomy is the science that studies the body and a basic discipline in health and biological sciences indispensableto students that study this area, and plays a important role in the comparison of species. Nowadays anatomy is falling into aca demic andscientific crisis. Recently, the number of papers and reviews on health science education have increased considerably. Pre-clinicaldisciplines are essential for all health and biological science courses; among them anatomy is considered to be the basis of m orphologicalsciences. For that reason, throughout history, this discipline has been viewed as a factual knowledge base that must be learned in itsentirety. History of anatomy demonstrated that teaching in this area is facilitated by the use of dissection of both animal and humandisciplines. In absence of human cadavers, it is possible to use animals for dissection for the benefits of students. The aim of this paperis to serve as a reminder to understand that anatomy is the basis of current health science and to realize what is important in the teachingof anatomy. It is also important to learn anatomy since researchers sometimes draw wrong conclusion because of lack of anatomicalknowledge.KEY WORDS: Anatomy’ history; Anatomy’s teaching; Capuchin monkeys; Cebus.