This presents a lucid and enticing introduction to the subject of anatomy, broad in scope and deep in insights. It enables the reader to make sense of the architecture of the human body by explaining structure and relating it to function. Because it deals primarily with fundamental principles, its subject matter is unlikely to become dated.
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"A fascinating book. One need not be an anatomist to read this work." -- Choice April 2003
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Robert Marshall is a consultant general surgeon in Melbourne who has served on the surgical staff of the Royal Melbourne Hospital and as chairman of the Committee of Chairmen of Melbourne Teaching Hospitals. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate anatomy for several years and is currently honorary senior lecturer in the department of anatomy at the University of Melbourne.
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The Authors Passionate Conviction for A&P Shows,
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This review is from: Living Anatomy: Structure as the Mirror of Function (Hardcover)
Living Anatomy is a different kind of A&P text, one which focuses on understanding A&P and not memorizing an enormous amount of information. If I had used this text for my undergraduate text in A&P I would have LEARNED MUCH MORE ANATOMY AND, MORE IMPORTANT WOULD HAVE ENJOYED THE COURSE MORE. The book I used was King and Showers,5th edition, a text that has been around for many years but uses the facts and more facts approach and in my experience tended to turn off students (fortunately my love for biology and science was such that nothing turned me off). The book reads like a story book and will appeal to general readers. The author is a professor of anatomy at the University of Melbourne and has a long string of publications under his belt. I noted some mistakes, such as the claim, commonly repeated, but now shown to be in error by several studies, that we share 99 percent of our DNA with gorillas (actually chimps), a number that came from early hybridization studies. One comment I found interesting, which was found on page 424, was human anatomy is "certainly vastly more complex than the ticking watch cited in chapter 1, which by its very existence seemed to demand the presence of a watchmaker" an admission that I have seen more often in science books as of late. This may say something about the success of the Intelligent Design movement in reaching professional scientists. This text certainly supports the view that the body is marvelously designed, as are the bodies of all life. A study of A&P vividly confirms this conclusion
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