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Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Author: Christine Montross
Reader: Renée Raudman

A moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver and the first-year medical student who cuts her open. The author becomes utterly intrigued by the person the woman once was, humbled by the sacrifice she had made in donating her body, and fascinated by the strange, unsettling beauty of the human form. "[Raudman reads] with just the right level of emotion. Her tone, like Montross's writing, is often irreverent and dryly funny, without ever being disrespectful."—AudioFile   ยป Read More

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Publish Date: 07/03/2007
ISBN: 9781400154876
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Synopsis:

Christine Montross, a poet turned medical student, writes about the amazing and alarming act of dissecting the dead. Mixing her personal experiences with historical nuggets on the ancient art/science of necropsy, Montross carefully considers the moral elements at play in the world of medicine, and discovers powerful truths about our relationship to the human body, illness, and death.

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