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sydneysherman2005's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I liked it a lot, it was a great framing for our semester on life death and human-ness. At points I felt it was a bit strung out but it was never too dense or uninteresting.
possumnest127's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
wow!!!
raven_morgan's review against another edition
4.0
Once upon a time, I wanted to be a doctor. That didn't happen, and I ended up in genetics instead, but spent a year of my undergrad work studying human anatomy. We never dissected any human cadavers, but we worked a lot with specimens that the techs had dissected. Reading this, I kept on having a visceral memory of how, when we walked out of the anatomy labs, everything we owned smelled like formalin.
Vividly written and eye-opening to a lot of the emotional and psychological stuff that people go through during medical training.
Vividly written and eye-opening to a lot of the emotional and psychological stuff that people go through during medical training.
rkaufman13's review against another edition
4.0
Restarting this book from the beginning. Forgot how disturbing it is, so it may be slow going.
lanid's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Terminal illness, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
caitpoytress's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book, probably because I could relate so much of what the author described to my own experiences with cadaveric dissection - everything from trying to find the right balance of humor and respectfulness in the lab, to the rush of emotions you feel when you see that your cadaver has painted fingernails (ours were a pearly pink), a stark reminder that she was once a living and breathing human being and not just a lab specimen. The historical bits were interesting as well, and reading this book made me really want to get back to the the lab again.