First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab

By (author): "Albert Howard Carter III"
Publish Date: October 1997
First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
ISBN031219546X
ISBN139780312195465
AsinFirst Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
Original titleFirst 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.