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Summary: An infinite book for "finite" science?
Review: A book you can still dream on.This was written and rewritten when Victorian erudition was in the making. Some authors in the long series of its well parsed institutional writing would still like to see it continuing in THAT well established tradition. Alas, the times have changed. Recent anatomy texts are dwarfs not even climbing on the shoulders of the likes of Gray, Braus and Testut. Those authors professed ideals of "seeing through the skin structures", "synmorphy" and "mentally reconstructing the living". Today we do all this with machines... I stopped reading the huge text linearly at the complicated review of angiogenesis, but still browse dedicated chapters for standard, if somewhat elaborate descriptions. Comprehensive knowledge parsing seems to have lived a fruitful life and then exit the scene to enrich scientific obituaries. But if Gibbon were still an example of style, the fifth star would be added when that clarity, in my view mandatory for monuments, will be eventually reached.
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Summary: Get THIS version, not a paperback! It's the best!
Review: Gray's Anatomy, first published in 1858, is thought by the average layman to be merely a historical classic, and is usually purchased as a paperback reprint of the 1905 version. If you want the most up-to-date description of human anatomy, steer clear of the paperbacks and buy the 38th edition in hardback. It costs a lot more, but it is more than worth it. It contains an amazing amount of technical information that has only been discovered in the last ten or twenty years (such as the spiral architecture of the heart, MRI imagery, and details of microbiology and cellur arcitecture). It even contains a nice summary of the history of the universe. If I had the rest of my life (I'm a 35-year old engineer) to do nothing but read this book, I could not come close to absorbing all knowledge it contains. I firmly believe that this is the most important book I own. I recommend this book highly to anyone who wishes to learn more about the marvelous machine that is the human body.
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Summary: Grays: The fundamental medical book
Review: Instead of purchasing a book for embroyology, one for histology, one for anatomy, etc., if you are starting into medicine, save your pennies and just get a Gray's Anatomy. Everything that you will need to know in your career is within its pages. The cellular illustrations are perfect, and it is far easier to work with a book that is unified, so that when an anatomical feature is described, the reference is given to the page in the embroyology describing where it originated, and to a specific histological feature. The book is written by a team of experts and edited precisely, so the knowledge is cutting edge in every discipline, and holds far fewer errors than other textbooks. Buy this book and keep it on your shelf throughout school and then move it to your doctor's office.
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Summary: Excellent reference!!
Review: This book is absolutely amazing. It was the required reference text for a gross anatomy class I took in graduate school and it made studying so easy! I used to go through and take notes out of it in order to have a solid base of what I should see when I would dissect. This book also described a lot of the abnormalities and variations that we would regularly see in the human body. A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WHO WILL BE STUDYING ANATOMY!!!!!!
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Summary: A cogent description of the human body.
Review: This book is truly a masterpiece. The writing and layout is good. Descriptions and illustrations are clear and well done. I am not a medical professional and yet I find this book fascinating in its breadth and scope. To better comprehend some of the anatomical structures I first read relevant portions of this book and then go to Netter's Atlas Of Human Anatomy. One point of caution though - get the 38th British Edition. This is by far superior to the American Edition which costs half as much. The extra money spent will be well worth it. After all there is a lifetime of adventure embedded in this volume.
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Summary: A cogent description of the human body.
Review: This book is truly a masterpiece. The writing and layout is good. Descriptions and illustrations are clear and well done. I am not a medical professional and yet I find this book fascinating in its breadth and scope. To better comprehend some of the anatomical structures I first read relevant portions of this book and then go to Netter's Atlas Of Human Anatomy. One point of caution though - get the 38th British Edition. This is by far superior to the American Edition which costs half as much. The extra money spent will be well worth it. After all there is a lifetime of adventure embedded in this volume.
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Summary: The most authoritative reference text there is on anatomy
Review: This text is the most authoritative of all anatomical texts; this is attributed to the editors of this text from past to this edition being prominent members of the medical profession and in saying so also being responsible of globalizing the anatomical nomenclature. This text is rather advanced for an amateur student. With all due respect one much have some acquired background knowledge before one can grasp the intensity of which this text. It is the best reference text around, I myself use the CD-ROM version of it and it is most articulate in defining the pathological nature of certain anatomical components as well as giving detailed, precise and important information on each. This text is exhaustively extensive and comprises of a great deal of research in a myriad of fields. I strongly suggest anyone buying this to buy a complementing book like Last's Anatomy by Chummy. M. Sinnatamby. If you have these two books then know this that you are armed with the most prominent books dealing with anatomy and they are long standing authorities both in the UK medical system as well as that in the US. Last's is more common to the UK as Clinical anatomy of Moore and Dalley is in the US. It is a NEED for medical students.
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Summary: Great book. Get it.
Review: This version of Gray's (British, 38th edition) is the most expensive and comprehensive one available, and is well-worth the price. I use it as the proverbial 'ultimate reference', along with Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy. You won't go wrong with this tome. I suggest the Amazon 1st or 2nd-day shipping option, in order to receive the book in nice condition.
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