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Author: Christine Montross
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1594201250
Category: Medical

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

A hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Download Body of Work medical books for free.
Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped by corpses in body bags is shocking no matter how long you've prepared yourself, but a strange thing happened when Montross met her cadaver. Instead of being disgusted by her, she was utterly intrigued-intrigued by the person the woman once was, humbled by the sacrifice she had made in donating her body to science, fascinated by the strange, unsettling beauty of the human form. They called her Eve. This is th Get Body of Work our bestseller medical books.

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