num_pages: 308
description: With humor, compassion, and wisdom, Howard Carter recounts the semester he spent watching first-year medical students in a human anatomy lab. From the tentative early incisions of the back, the symbolic weight of extracting the heart, and by the end, the curious mappings of the brain, we embark on a path that is at once frightening, awesome, and finally redemptive.
language: English
title: First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
titlecomplete: First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
genres: Nonfiction, Science, Medicine
ratings_count: 73
publisher: Picador