Isbn: 9780312168407 - first cut: a season in the human anatomy lab (16 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Fair. 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.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. 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.…

Condición: Very Good. 1st ed. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. 1st ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. This is a hardcover book with a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Gift inscription.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: "For Phil & Joan O'Hara Happy reading! Howard Hampton University JUNE meeting July 2004". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condición: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Picador, New York, 1997. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. DJ shows a tiny bit of shelf rub, otherwise as new.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. clean text, cover and dust jacket; tight binding; previous owner's signature inked inside front flap and library impression stamp f.e.p.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. (1st edition, 1st ptg.) Sturdy book, dark blue spine, white boards, orange lettering very fine on spine, 306 pages with some illustrations. DJ glossy black front and back, an x-ray illustration of hand on front, white spine. DJ and book, both As New.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. ix, [3], 308 pages. Includes List of Figures and Introduction; Commencing to Cut; Into Intimacies; From Cadaver to Carcuss to Reincorporation; and Acknowledgments. Also includes 29 black and white figures in the text. Albert Howard Carter is a professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has written extensively on the interface of the humanities and medicine. Howard Carter (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Iowa) writes about medicine and health from a humanistic perspective. He has been active in literature and medicine for over 20 years. Ever since his own father dedicated his body to medical research, the author has been intrigued by the fates of our bodies. This book is his account of the semester he spent watching first year medical students at Emory University in Atlanta dissect their cadavers. Nervous, uncertain, even fearful, the students begin the course by cutting open the back, and go on to discover details of the body's miraculous design, as well as some causes of its death. They finish with the puzzling key to the body--the brain--but also with a newfound reverence for the dead. 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. Derived from an article in Publishers Weekly: Carter, a professor of literature and humanities at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., always wanted to be a physician but never took the step of applying to medical school. Instead, during a sabbatical, he sat in on a human anatomy course for first-year medical students at Emory University and chronicled what students go through, both emotionally and physically, as they dissect cadavers over the course of the 16-week semester. Coupled with this story is that of Carter's search for closure with his father's death, and his discovery of what became of his body after it was donated to a medical school. The personal narrative, particularly in three essays written in lieu of the exams taken by the students throughout the semester, is overwritten ("What is this voyage within, with all its sensuous glory?") and is less successful than Carter's descriptions of how students come to grips with the cadavers. While this particular anatomy course seems ideal, comprised of thoughtful, creative lectures delivered by devoted professors to adoring and eager students. Carter provides insight into a critical aspect of medical training, and an unusually intimate, even arresting, view of the bodies we have and the bodies we will become. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Sally J. Boon (Jacket photograph) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Very Fine. First Edition. (1st, 1st) Slightly smaller book, black spine, light gray boards, orange lettering on spine, antique illustration of human being's muscles on title page. In black ink: "For Chris--who knows about all this! Albert H. Carter III." 306 pages. DJ glossy black beneath mylar with illustration of x-rayed hand on front, white spine, same illustration as title page with praise from Richard Selzer. Top tip creased on page 31. DJ has pin dent at top back spine indentation. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine. Signed by Author(s).…