Anatomical science was beginning to rebel again Galenism but it was falling victim to its own etymology: not only did it cut into the dead body that it studied but it dissected the concept of the body on which it constructed a new rationale for the somatic; it divided it into parts, breaking it up into pieces as disassociated from one another as the subjects of the sovereign would become in the social structure that was emerging.
La ciencia anatómica que empezaba a rebelarse contra el galenismo parece víctima de su propia etimología: no sólo corta el cadáver sobre el que estudia sino que disecciona el concepto de cuerpo sobre el que construye la nueva racionalidad del organismo; lo divide en partes, lo descompone en trozos tan disociados entre sí como lo estarían los súbditos de su soberano en la propia estructura social que emerge.