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In 1999, journalist Giegerich accompanied four medical students at Newark's University of Medicine and Dentistry through a semester of gross anatomy, the pivotal course that brings first-year students face-to-face with a human cadaver. Those months in the lab, as well as considerable secondary research on physiology and the history of anatomy, have borne fruit in this sensitive, provocative book. A number of excellent medical school memoirs already exist, such as William Nolen's classic The Making of a Surgeon and Perri Klass's more recent A Not Entirely Benign Procedure. Nolen and Klass have the advantage of firsthand insight, but neither zeroes in on so novel and so critical an aspect of the medical school experience as Giegerich does. His observer status, by no means a handicap, allows him to sketch impassively yet compassionately the divergent lives of his four subjects, and his excellent reportage delivers the psychological and emotional trials of gross anatomy with razor precision. Novel also is Giegerich's account of the once-living person who shares this journey, Tom Lewis, a public school administrator and ardent Roman Catholic who donates his body to science. The reader comes to know him well, but to the anatomists, who must rely on the scalpel and their own wits to learn his identity, he is simply cadaver #3426. Giegerich makes a strong case for gifts to science by showing how Tom, a social activist while he was alive, profoundly affects the lives of these four medical students after he is dead. Like Nolen's classic memoir, Giegerich's sensitive study will be essential reading for anyone considering a career in medicine.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Library Journal
Completing the freshman course, Medical Gross and Developmental Anatomy (GA), is one of the first bridges one crosses to become a physician. Journalist Giegerich succeeds admirably in taking readers through the five units of GA (head and neck, thorax, abdomen, and upper and lower extremities) at Newark's University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey so that the curious emerge with their imaginations satiated, their hands clean and odor free, but, alas, sans medical degree. Giegerich introduces the body donor, the embalmer, the school secretary who arranges for body donations, the students, and the anatomy faculty, letting us share in the experience all the way up to the memorial service that terminates the course before the dissected cadavers are sent to the crematory. Depending on his or her disposition, the reader is likely to be mesmerized, appalled, or emotionally depleted by these comprehensive and engrossing insights into the first-year med student's exposure to the complexity of the human body with its myriad Latinized structures, the unremitting pressures of memorization and ever-present exams, and a sprinkling of "cadaver juice" and practical jokes added to ease the tension. Human dissection is a fascinating and complex topic, and Meryl Levin's Anatomy of Anatomy (Third Rail, 2000) provides a pictorial complement to Giegerich's compelling text. For popular medical collections. James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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