Main description:

Helps you explore and share your personal responses to dissection. This book shows the anatomy cadaver as a bridge spanning the chasm that lies between ignorance, darkness, and death on one side and knowledge, health, and life on the other.

Contents:

Foreword, Jack Coulehan, MD

Prologue: Sharing a UMASS Medical School Tradition

Dissection and Reflection: Variations of the Module

-Anticipating Dissection: Template

-Inaugural Session: Facing Dissection

-History of Dissection

-Relevance to Patient Care

-Anatomical Gift Program

-Meeting the Cadaver

- Coping Styles (Illustrated Lecture Presentations)

-Anatomy Lesson in Art and Dance

-The Art and Science of Medicine

-Michelangelo's Morgue Experiences

- Student Service of Thanksgiving for Body Donors

- A Graduation Tradition

Medical Students Meet Cadavers

-The room was both a morgue and a classroom

-I'm more uncomfortable having to draw than having to dissect

-Words cannot describe what it is like

-Our bodies are our cheat sheets

-I like the Buddhist notion of death and the body

-I wonder what her life was like

-Cut me I will not bleed

-The power of habit

-I'll never forget Doc, as we called him

Epilogue: Reflections and Connections

-The UMass Community cares for its dead

-Memorial Service

-Student Eulogies and Family Members' Responses

-Coda: The Web of Life

References

Acknowledgments