Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition
2011
ISBN: 0470501456
352 pages
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Anatomy is a visual science, and in no other subject does the age-old saying ring so true — “a picture is worth a thousand words.” With this in mind we created this book to teach anatomy with the real thing — photographs of cadaver dissections and the bones of the skeleton, and micrographs of the body’s tissues. We believe that every word that has ever been written about anatomy is the result of someone describing what they observed in a dissection (or as is the case of many authors today, the words are paraphrased from somebody else’s knowledge and writings about dissection). In this book we provide you with the images of real anatomy, with the hope that this will help you better visualize the words of anatomy. We oft en hear that photographs can never clarify and teach anatomy as well as art. While it is true that the artist has much more creative license than the dissector, it is also true that a lot of anatomical art does not always accurately depict what is actually observed by a dissector; or for that matter, a surgeon in a clinical setting. We believe that good dissection and photography can be instructive, especially when creatively coupled with teaching concepts. With this in mind, another objective of this book is to present images that teach, and not just showcase a plethora of anatomy. Each dissection was made with an instructive purpose and reference images are used to highlight and focus on the patterns or concepts depicted by the dissections. Th ere are many simple patterns of design that organize and clarify the structure of the vertebrate body. We attempt to show these patterns in our presentation of anatomical structure throughout the chapters of this book. Th e few words that accompany the images in the book draw attention to the patterns and the basic structure-function relationships of the dissections and micrographs.
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