The Washington Post, July 17th, 2007
BODY OF WORK Meditations on Mortality From the Human Anatomy Lab By Christine Montross Penguin Press. 295 pp. $24.95 Some of us, maybe most, are thankful for skin. We're the ones who fear that listening to heartbeats will make them stop. Our eyes slide away from the veins outlined on our wrists. We shudderingly avoid checking for lumps in our breasts. We are decidedly not fascinated by the mechanics of childbirth. We do not (or cannot) acknowledge that we (and everyone we care about) are mere amalgamations of blood and organs, nerves and bones. We are grateful for the shielding cloak of ski...
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