Gray's Pocket Anatomy

by Charles H. Leonard

Book Overview

No one can look at the drawings of Gray's Anatomy and not come away with a feeling of awe about the miracle of the human body in all its complex functioningwhat Isaac Asimov has called "the most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517434865
• ISBN13: 9780517434864
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Awesome

I just wanted to say that I have owned this book & Its one of my all time favorite books ever! I was just emailing my aunt back in NY talking about this & wanted to see if there was still more copies of this one, there is & I had to leave a comment! If you want this book note that I've had it, left it in Mexico, Its so beautiful & smells so wonderful !!! This book is so worth buying & I LOVE IT!!!! I also got the Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary with it, cuz I'm not a doctor, I just love that book & wanted to know what things where that I didnt know.. Also one amazing deal in here & I love that book as well! These two go hand in hand!!! You cant go wrong!!! I also wanna say I wish there was a higher rating on this book!! Its more than outstanding!!! Its AMAZING!!!!

WONDERFUL ART REFERENCE

This is a very good book if you are like me and use it for artistic reference. While it doesn't contain a lot of colorful pictures it is just enough to give you some insight into how the human anatomy is constructed and moves. It is also good to refer to when you read an article about Jennifer Aniston and you want to know what a septum is.

As good as you have heard.

Gray's Anatomy is a "classic" book on Anatomy. Unusual for a classic, it is everything you have heard. The drawings are beautiful, accurate, and interesting. At the same time, this book was a standard text for Anatomy since 1901. As such, the drawing are only part of this book. The book's main effort is to explanation human anatomy. It does so wonderfully and clearly, with words. The drawings are only there to help with the text's explanations.A quick warning. Since this book has been around since before 1901, there are many, many different versions. Make sure you check the printing date of the one you buy. The human body has not changed since this first editions, but our access to it has. As such, while some of the earlier books are beautiful to look at, the later editions are more valuable as a reference tool.

Easy reading, timeless classic

This is a great book for anyone from a interrested thirteen year old to a pre-med or med school student to a liscenced M.D. I read the book and absolutely loved it. Henry Gray is a genius. "Gray's descriptions are clear and easy for laymen to understand, and the many illustrations are detailed and fascinating. Essential not only for medical students and professionals but also for painters, sculptors, or anyone interested in coming to know his own body and its structure." -Small Press Review