A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...

THE human body can fascinate and enthral – but it can also appal. Two new books highlight our complex relationship with the body and, interestingly for the queasy 21st century, don’t blink at the ...

Gavin Francis is not a traditional traveler. The landscape he explores is human anatomy, his maps are x-rays. “I journey through the body as I listen to my patients’ lungs, manipulate their joints, or ...

THIS is a book of 268 pages on anatomy and physiology, written by a member of the nursing profession. The author states that the text is compiled from many well-known books, and that nearly all the ...