Body of Knowledge: One Semester of Gross Anatomy, the Gateway to Becoming a Doctor
Body of Knowledge: One Semester of Yucky Anatomy, the Gateway to Apt a Doctor Books
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Medical Yucky and Developmental Anatomy is the course every medical student dreads. As one aspiring physician described it to journalist-author Steve Giegerich, “it’s the bridge you have to thwart if you want to become a doctor.”
Four lab partners facing that notoriously trying course at Newark’s University of Medicine and Dentistry are Sherry Ikalowych, a former nurse and mother of four; Jennifer Hannum, an ultracompetitive jock; Udele Tagoe, a determined Duke graduate of Ghanian descent; and Ivan Gonzalez, a Nicaraguan refugee and unlikely medical student. This lively chronicle of each of their ambitions, failures, and successes has at its focal top Tom Lewis, the cadaver lying before them to be dissected. From their first face-to-face encounter with Lewis as an anonymous cadaver on the stainless steel table to a rich reverence for Lewis’s generous donation of his body to science, what they each learn about medicine, compassion, life, and death makes for a fascinating insiders’ account of the shaping of a medical professional.
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I found this book so fascinating. I may possibly not place it down.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book contains the germ of a excellent thought – to follow the adventures of four medical students during their yucky anatomy class. The medical in rank contained in the book is most fascinating.
But, the clunky, pedantic style of the writing together with the many unexplained technical terms used (sometimes erroneously), make reading this book a tiring experience. The author clearly needs more editorial help and creative writing experience in order to lighten the tone of the book and to make it less dull. Aptly now it is about as exciting to read as a trust deed for an irregularly shaped piece of farmland.
Rating: 2 / 5
I found this book so fascinating. I may possibly not place it down.
Rating: 5 / 5
Body of Knowledge is a clever book; clever in the sense that it interweaves different tales with a common thread — that being the art and science of Yucky Anatomy. The reader is introduced to the students, teachers, staff, and most significantly, the man who would become the specimen, or more fittingly, the body of knowledge. It is certainly stuffed with several variations of the same theme: the unselfish act of sharing one’s body to enrich one’s mind. In exploring this theme, it is apparent that the author’s aim is to show the reader how the simple act of dissecting flesh and bone can unlock the life history of the deceased. In doing so, the students are reminded that what is now a specimen was once a man who had lived, loved, laughed, cried, celebrated, and suffered…essentially, the man had been resurrected.
But, the theme does grow repetitive and tiresome after the first three chapters, and I often felt as though the author tried too hard to spell out what is inherently evident to me as the reader. All in all, the book is a nice read, though very dry at times. The writing can be clumsy, and the transition from one tale to another often does not flow smoothly. Alas, it’s a excellent starter book for anyone interested in the art and science of death. It’s often given as a gift to matriculating medical students by their medical colleges during the illustrious white-coat ceremony. If you can find a med student who has the book, just borrow it from him. Chances are he hasn’t read it anyway.
Rating: 2 / 5
I loved this novel. It takes you through the disection of an entire cadavar. It balances the students need to learn even as maintaining the cadavar’s humanity by relating to you who he was and who loved him. Brilliant book, I would urge it to anyone.
Rating: 5 / 5