Body of work
Subtitle: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab
By: Christine Montross
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780143113669
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Psychology; Attitude to Death; Anecdotes; Dissection; Dead; Women medical students; Anatomy; Medical Students; Medical students; Attitude of Health Personnel; Personal Narratives; Human dissection; Human anatomy; Mortality
Other titles: Meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab
Notes: "A revelatory memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cut her open"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295).
Table of contents: title: Preface: mystery; title: Bone box; title: First cut; title: Breath and blood; title: Anatomical precedence; title: Origins of a corpse; title: In pursuit of wonder; title: The bodies of strangers; title: Toll; title: The discomfort of doctoring; title: An unsteady balance; title: Pelvis; title: Dismantled; title: Epilogue: good-bye.