A review by ajaggers324
Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

4.0

This is an interesting medical humanities text. I enjoyed reading it. I am critical of the title being misleading. It is not a cultural history. It is a Western European cultural history of the human body. This is interesting enough, but it should advertise itself as that. It barely mentions, if that, beliefs, art, and other cultural phenomena of Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, ancient Egyptians, Africans, Indians, Aborigines, etc. I recognize that this book would be entirely unwieldy, but an acknowledgement of other ideas would not have gone amiss.