Jan 18, 2008

Pick of the Week

The anatomist : a true story of Gray's anatomy
by Bill Hayes
Hayes (author of Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir) explores the lives of the two men, author Henry Gray and illustrator Henry Carter, responsible for Gray's Anatomy, still the standard in medical textbooks at 150 years old. Little has been written about either man, but Hayes balances biographical chapters with his own experience in the anatomy classroom in this well written examination of life, death, and the body beneath.


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