edited by Sophia Vackimes

Artificial disciplinary boundaries obscure much of what is cultural in the development of science and its various disciplines. A much richer history of science, of medicine, would be available to us if we followed the dots, or even transgressed boundaries more often. For example, one can walk into the Medicine Museion in Copenhagen and find that a sculpture of St. Sebastian is regarded merely as building decoration and not related in any way with his wild story of pain and multiple incisions to the noble history of Western medicine. If there ever was a Saint more deserving of a place in the pantheon of cuts, incisions and surgeries it would surely be this Catholic marthyr!