The author provides an account of the semester he spent observing first-year medical students dissect cadavers at Emory University in Atlanta, and teaches lessons about the human body and the process of becoming a doctor.
Illustrations made by using CAT-scans, X-ray photography, crystal scintillation, computer mapping, and thermography show how the body works and explains the different types of body tissue.
Provides answers to questions about the human body, providing information on the body's systems and the ways they work together to help people move, talk, breathe, think, and survive.