We believe that good dissection and photography can be instructive, especially when creatively coupled with teaching concepts. While it is true that the artist has much more creative license than the dissector, it is also true that a lot of anatomical art does not always accurately depict what is actually observed by a dissector or for that matter, a surgeon in a clinical setting.
We oft en hear that photographs can never clarify and teach anatomy as well as art. In this book we provide you with the images of real anatomy, with the hope that this will help you better visualize the words of anatomy. We believe that every word that has ever been written about anatomy is the result of someone describing what they observed in a dissection (or as is the case of many authors today, the words are paraphrased from somebody else’s knowledge and writings about dissection). Anatomy is a visual science, and in no other subject does the age-old saying ring so true - “a picture is worth a thousand words.” With this in mind we created this book to teach anatomy with the real thing - photographs of cadaver dissections and the bones of the skeleton, and micrographs of the body’s tissues.
