Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

When author Christine Montross started her tenure as a medical student, she felt nervous about cutting into a human body on her first day in the anatomy lab. But as time went on, Montross began to appreciate the insight that her position afforded her. Working with her cadaver, which the medical students called Eve, she began to notice things about who she had been when she was alive. This book is a meditation on the experience of working with cadavers, and more broadly an examination of our relationship with the deceased. An invaluable narrative from a perspective not often heard from, Body of Work provides a fascinating glimpse into our bodies, and into mortality itself.

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