Body of Work
Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
تفکرات در مورد اخلاقیات از آزمایشگاه آناتومی انسان
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2007
نویسنده
Renée Raudmanناشر
Tantor Media, Inc.شابک
9781400174874
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- نقد و بررسی
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BODY OF WORK is Christine Montross's memoir of her first year in medical school, during which she studied human anatomy with the help of "EveG" an elderly woman who donated her remains for that purpose. Thoroughly and methodically dissecting a human cadaver is an experience that includes equal parts revulsion, fascination, empathy, and indifference. Renée Raudman touches on each of these in all the appropriate places, and with just the right level of emotion. Her tone, like Montross's writing, is often irreverent and dryly funny, without ever being disrespectful. The author interview at the end gives an added glimpse into the anatomy lab. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
BODY OF WORK is Christine Montross's memoir of her first year in medical school, during which she studied human anatomy with the help of "EveΓ" an elderly woman who donated her remains for that purpose. Thoroughly and methodically dissecting a human cadaver is an experience that includes equal parts revulsion, fascination, empathy, and indifference. Renée Raudman touches on each of these in all the appropriate places, and with just the right level of emotion. Her tone, like Montross's writing, is often irreverent and dryly funny, without ever being disrespectful. The author interview at the end gives an added glimpse into the anatomy lab. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
Starred review from April 2, 2007
Though it never goes for the gross-out effect, this memoir is not for the squeamish. "You begin to learn to heal the living by dismantling the dead," says Montross, and though her recollections encompass all of her medical training, the narrative backbone of the story is her semester-long dissection of a human cadaver, from opening up the ribcage to removing the brain from the skull. Montross was a poet and writing teacher before she decided to become a doctor, and she peppers her account of the dismantling of her cadaver, Eve—so named because she has no belly button—with arresting imagery: to test the heart's semilunar valves ("little half-moons that work passively and without musculature"), she and another student take the organ to a sink and run tap water through it. Performing her own dissection leads Montross to explore the history of studying anatomy through corpses, which brings tantalizing detours to medieval Italian universities and saints' shrines. But she also recounts her earliest encounters with living patients, such as a heart-wrenching consultation with a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, who can communicate only by blinking. Her thoughtful meditations on balancing clinical detachment and emotional engagement will easily find a spot on the shortlist of great med school literature.
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