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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.
More Reviews and RecommendationsHoward 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.
"It's a beauty of a book, and its anatomy is unique and lovely." --John Stone, Associate Dean of Admissions at Emory University School of Medicine, and author of In the Country of Hearts and In All This Rain
"Carter, a superb writer, paints us a marvelous picture of the human anatomy lab." --The New England Journal of Medicine
"An intimately woven and candid exposition of life, death, and learning...First Cut is pleasurable to read, both entertaining and thought provoking." --The Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA)
"[An] excellent book...His reflections on the intricacies of our construction are calm, restrained and intelligent." --The Washington Post
"An incisive and finely wrought rendition of what takes place in the anatomy laboratory, that crucible where every doctor is born." --Richard Selzer, author of Mortal Lessons and Letters to a Young Doctor
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