pickMontross reflects on her time as a medical student in the dissection lab with three other students and their cadaver subject, whom they dub Eve. She goes into class unsure what her feelings and reactions will be, and I thought beautifully combined her personal experience with the history of human anatomy study and anecdotes from her life.
I know it‘s very niche, but great book if you‘re interested in the subject.
so-soPart memoir, part poetic and historical inquiry into the uneasy relationship humans have had with teaching cadavers, the author writes about her first-year medical school course in gross anatomy, where she is paired with a female cadaver she names “Eve.“ The author's ensuing semester-long dissection of Eve cements her respect and gratitude to Eve as “mentor:“ an apt title for a woman whose donated body has enriched the education of many doctors.
pickBeautiful dissertation on mortality through the eyes of a medical student. The process of dissection, though macabre for many, serves a beautiful purpose as highlighted here. Lovely read.
Umm, Workplace books. I work from home and my job doesn't require any books. 😕
So when I graduated high school, I thought I wanted to be a forensic pathologist. At some point I decided that wasn't for me, but I still love a good fiction or non-fiction book on forensic pathology or really anything medical.
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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab | 
