Body of work : meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab / Christine Montross.
2008
QM28 .M66 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Body of work : meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab / Christine Montross.
Author
Montross, Christine.
ISBN
9780143113669 (pbk.)
0143113666 (pbk.)
0143113666 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Penguin Books, 2008, c2007.
Language
English
Description
295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
QM28 .M66 2008
Note
"A revelatory memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cut her open"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of 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.
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.