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

Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

320 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It is the inspiration for art, the subject of science, and the source of some of the greatest stories ever told. In Anatomies, accl...

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