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

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

Christine Montross

9 hours, 22 minutes first pub 2007 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open  Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of clas...

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informative 77%
reflective 66%
challenging 22%
emotional 22%
inspiring 22%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 25%

Average rating

4.02

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