First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab Books
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The journey of first-year medical students through the body’s mysteries. With humor and compassion, Albert Howard Carter examines the finer points of the heart and soul, offering thoughts on what it means to be a doctor and a patient, and what the dead can teach the living. 29 illustrations.Amazon.com Review
Many of us have heard tales about ghoulish medical students and the pranks they play using arms, heads, or other parts “borrowed” from the cadavers in their anatomy labs. Like most urban legends, these tales are both compelling and untrue, telling us more about how we presume the world to be than how it really is. First Cut contains the observations of a humanities professor allowed to watch medical students struggle with the challenges presented by their first anatomy class. Carter tracks, and mirrors, the students’ progress from initial nervous joking and unwillingness to touch the bodies to familiarity and respect for their “silent instructors,” culminating in an end-of-term Service of Reflection and Gratitude.
As he sees changes “in private feelings about death, touching, and the wonderfully complex activities of the human body” in the young men and women, he also puts to rest the memory of his father, who had donated his body for medical study. Pacing the tale are three inspired essays on the nature of medical education and thirty gorgeous and absorbing Renaissance anatomical illustrations. First Cut, far from being a sensationalistic account of young doctors run amok, is perfect for anyone who is interested in understanding medicine and its practitioners. –Rob Lightner
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A small too flowery for my taste and not very scientific. Then again what did I guess !!! Simple pros but if you want to learn about anatomy, get an anatomy atlas !!
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book before attending graduate school for Corporal Therapy, where we have cadaveric dissection. I found this book to be a fantastic tool to prepare myself for what it might be like in the anatomy lab. I really urge it for anyone preparing for this wonderful learning experience.
Rating: 5 / 5
First Cut provides an insider’s view of what really happens in the “twilight zone” of the anatomy lab. Carter has followed a group of medical students through their initial fears, failures, and eventual triumphs as they learn to cope with the human aspects of cold up cadavers. As they do so, they gain a silent respect and admiration for the people that, through their deaths, have given the ultimate gift of learning. This book should be required reading for all in the medical profession!
Rating: 5 / 5
I read this book on a Saturday. Honest through. It was that fascinating. You might find yourself slowly turning pages, worried to see what is nearly the corner, like trying to time when to cover your eyes in the scary movies of your youth. You might find yourself studying the exquisitely detailed engravings from the 1400’s. You might find yourself learning new words and new insights into words you already knew. You might look at yourself and others differently after reading this book. You will certainly learn something, but everyone will learn something different. One thing is certain, you will not be bored. Be prepared for a single sitting siege and choose your snack foods carefully–spaghetti, pudding, and the like are ill-advised. After reading this book, you’ll probably start exercising again anyway. You’ll have to read it to find out why.
Rating: 5 / 5
The author provides the reader with an opportunity to experience something unique and different — human dissection.For those caught up in medical education, the dissectioin experience is described in a sensitive, insightful and right manner. The author’s essays and illustrations of the dissections by Versalius provides a sensory of history and meaning that any health propfessions student about to take yucky anatomy would find fscinating. This book is must reading for any first year medical student and should be on anyone’s list who is concerned with the education of health professionals.
Rating: 5 / 5