Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross

Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

Christine Montross

295 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of clas...

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Moods

informative 83%
reflective 75%
challenging 25%
emotional 25%
inspiring 25%
dark 8%

Pace

medium 80%
slow 20%

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4.06

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