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First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab

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.

Subject
science
Themes
medical
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 308 pages

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