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Body of work : meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab / Christine Montross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montross, Christine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montross, Christine.
- Human anatomy--Anecdotes.
- Human anatomy.
- Human dissection--Anecdotes.
- Human dissection.
- Medical students--Anecdotes.
- Medical students.
- Mortality--Anecdotes.
- Mortality.
- Women medical students--Anecdotes.
- Women medical students.
- Dead--Anecdotes.
- Dead.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- In this hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open, Montross provides an uncommon perspective on the emotional difficulty a first year medical student can face.
- Contents:
- Preface: mystery
- Bone box
- First cut
- Breath and blood
- Anatomical precedence
- Origins of a corpse
- In pursuit of wonder
- The bodies of strangers
- Toll
- The discomfort of doctoring
- An unsteady balance
- Pelvis
- Dismantled
- Epilogue: good-bye.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-295).
- ISBN:
- 9781594201257
- 1594201250
- OCLC:
- 144651699
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