Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy LabA gleaming, humane (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a first year medical student Medical student Christine Montross felt nervous standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class. Entering a room with stainless steel tables topped by corpses in body bags was initially unnerving. But once Montross met her cadaver, she found herself intrigued by the person the woman once was and

In these simple and cute pictures

Funt's wisdom around making space is priceless

or the abandoned Caspian Sea oil rigs and drilling gear in Azerbaijan

This is the indispensable Oxford Handbook for all those working within critical care

speaker notes

Utterly read-in-one-day

pathologically driven

A place from which there is no escape

Filled with stunningly detailed illustrations

clear (even when the ideas he's exploring are obscure) and engaging (even when the theory in the original is forbidding)

From the collapse of the Roman Empire to the establishment of new European states

the bullied