Atlas of Anatomy
Posted by admin | Posted in Medical Atlas | Posted on 07-08-2010
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Product Description
Complete with exquisite, full-color illustrations by award-winning artists Markus Voll and Karl Wesker, the atlas is organized to lead students step-by-step through each region of the body. Each region opens with the foundational skeletal framework. The subsequent chapters build upon this foundation, adding the muscles, then organs, then vessels, then nerves, and finally presenting topographic anatomy for a comprehensive view. Each unit closes with surface anatomy accompanied by questions that ask the reader to apply knowledge learned for the real-life physical examination of patients.
Features:
-2,200 full-color illustrations of unsurpassed quality
-Brief introductory texts that provide an accessible entry point when a new topic is presented
-Clinical correlates and images, including radiographs, MRIs, CT scans, and endoscopic views
-Muscle Fact pages that organize the essentials, including origin, insertion, and innervation–ideal for memorization, reference, and review
-Navigators that orient the reader with location and plane of dissection
- A scratch-off code provides access to Winking Skull.com PLUS, an interactive online study
aid, featuring over 600 full-color anatomy illustrations and radiographs, labels-on,
labels-off” functionality, and timed self-tests
This atlas provides everything students need in just the right format, making the mastery of human anatomy eminently achievable.
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What is in the book: This is a stand-alone atlas of Human Gross Anatomy. The pictures are all painted drawings, with some clinical images mixed in (CT/MRI). These images are scattered throughout the book at strategic places and highly complement the material being presented. It is actually a translation (and possibly relabeling) of a German anatomy atlas. The images are top-rate and finely detailed. It is hands down one of the best atlases I have seen. I was trained on the Netter series, and I like this one much better. I especially like that this book includes tract diagrams for the neuroanatomy section, something often missing from anatomy atlases. Even though the pictures are drawings as opposed to photographs, I feel that learning anatomy on idealized drawings is better than from pictures, where you are relying on the care of the prosection and the quality of the specimen to show the various structures and relations. Skilled drawings are much better for learning, and this book has those.
What it isn’t: This is not a textbook! This book is an atlas, so do not expect text explanations. If you are looking for a good anatomy textbook, I would try Moore and Dalley’s “Clinically Oriented Anatomy”.
The weaknesses (why it earned only 4 stars): One of the weak points in the book is the labeling of structures. Focusing on the neuroanatomy section, which is my particular specialty, some of the labels mix terms or use archaic terms not commonly used anymore. For example, when labeling the brainstem, the different parts of the brainstem in the same figure are labeled with a mix of developmental and structural terms (for example: the midbrain is labeled by its developmental name, the mesencephalon, but the medulla is labeled the medulla oblongata. The developmental term for the medulla is the metencephalon). Also, sometimes the spinal cord is labeled the “cord” and others it is the “spinal cord”. When a student is learning anatomy for the first time, it is important for consistency in labeling or, if you are going to mix terms, make it clear what those terms are. Someone just learning anatomy may not realize that the midbrain and the mesencephalon are the same structure. Also, refraining from using more obscure labels is preferred. However, for someone who already knows anatomy and can easily pick out these differences, the atlas is top rate.
My qualifications: I am a Professor who has been teaching first year medical students at an Ivy League school and a state school for over 14 years and I have published several textbook. I am constantly on the lookout for good atlases, especially for Neuroanatomy.
Rating: 4 / 5
Okay this isn’t usually the type of book I review, but when I saw this was offered through the Amazon Vine program I snapped it up because it just looked so cool. Right off the bat I will tell you I am not a medical student or a doctor so this review is from the layman’s perspective.
This book is exactly what the title suggests; it is an atlas of the anatomy of the body. It is filled with wonderful illustrations of every part of your body you can possibly imagine. There are not many photographs; most of the pictures are illustrations although there is the occasional picture of an MRI or something of that nature. The book is separated into six sections: back, thorax, abdomen and pelvis, upper limb, lower limb, head and neck, and neuroanatomy. The nueroanatomy is by far the smallest section of the book.
All of the illustrations have decent descriptions. The skeletal, muscular, and vascular structures are detailed for each section as well ascartilage, ligaments, joints.
Everything is beautifully presented and very easy to read.
This is definitely a great book for those who want something to help them visualize the location of things in the human body. My only complaint would be that there is not a ton of text. There are short descriptions and some small grey boxes with asides describing certain conditions. But, this is definitely a book that details where things are and doesn’t have a ton of emphasis on how things work.
I think it is a beautiful book full of a ton of excellent information on where things are in the human body. The brief explanations given are good enough for the layman, but not incredibly detailed. We have used it a number of times in my family to show my three year old son what his bones look like, where his muscles are, and how blood gets moved through his body. I think it will be a useful book for us as a family.
Overall an excellent map of the human body, very high quality and highly detailed illustrations. I would definitely recommend this book both for families and for medical students who need to learn the parts of the human body.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was skeptical hearing others speak of this as a better resource than Gray’s, etc. Whether this is true or not is not up to me and entirely irrelevant; it’s welcome as either an additional anatomy course or as a first source – particularly for the novice (like yours truly).
When my copy arrived I wasn’t quite prepared to drop everything for a couple of hours on a random tour through the Atlas, but that’s precisely what I did. The quality of the artwork is as beautiful as I’d been led to believe and insights in easily comprehensible text offer inestimable value to the curious. I can imagine this becoming a prized gift for pre-med students and trust that’s precisely what will happen.
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Rating: 5 / 5
Atlas of Anatomy is a wonderful book to use for learning or for reference. The illustrations are fantastic and very detailed. Each part of the body is depicted one layer at a time with various views and distinctions between male and female parts where appropriate.
The clinical caveats were well written and very informative, giving some physiology to bring the anatomy information to life.
I highly recommend this book
Rating: 5 / 5
Other than having an anatomy, I have nothing to do with the world of medicine and have never even thought of becoming a medical student (who this book is geared towards). However, I find the body fascinating, and I grew up with a copy of Gray’s Anatomy in the house, which I often leafed through with wonder: a mysterious, ancient alien world known as the human body. And I had one!
So, Gray’s, with its meticulous black-and-white drawings and swaths of text, is my only point of comparison to this “Atlas of Anatomy”. The most striking difference here is the large, full-color illustrations in this Thieme book, as well as MRIs, radiographs, a few photographs, and much more. The text is helpful, descriptive, but not overbearing. This hefty tome is well-organized as well.
My only complaint is that even though the “soft” cover is thick and durable, it is already showing signs of wear after a couple of weeks of handling. Perhaps if you’re going to give it a lot of use, a hardcover edition might be a better choice? It’s a minor quibble for a book that so beautifully distills hundreds of years of medical anatomy work into a 656-page package.
Rating: 5 / 5