Description: In an "utterly winning book . . . as engrossing as any novel" ("The Raleigh News & Observer"), Carter recounts the semester he spent watching first-year medical students in a human anatomy lab. Illustrations.
Review Quotes:
"A warmly engaging, cheerful and utterly winning book... as engrossing as any novel, as thoughtful as the most searching memoir, as suggestive as any contemporary scientific essay." --Fred Chappell, The Raleigh News & Observer
"Carter provides insight into a critical aspect of medical training, and an unusually intimate, even arresting, view of the bodies we have and the bodies we will become." --Publishers Weekly "[A] compelling book...The author treats all parties, living and dead, with honesty, respect, and kindness throughout." --The Bloomsbury Review