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Article: National Library of Medicine Atlas of the Visible Human Male: Reverse Engineering of the Human Body
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- Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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National Library of Medicine Atlas of the Visible Human Male: Reverse Engineering of the Human Body, by Victor M. Spitzer and David G. Whitlock, 519 pp, with illus, $99.95, Boston, Jones and Bartlett Publishers (telephone: 800-8320034), 1998, ISBN 0-7637-0273-0
Type of Book: A photographic atlas that presents a complete set of labeled sections through a male human body in the transverse, coronal, and sagittal planes.
Scope of Book: This landmark publication is the most complete dataset of its type. The study subject was missing his appendix, a testicle, and a tooth; other than that, every structure in the male human body is illustrated from three different sectional views.
Contents: The ...