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“Hayes’s history of the illustrated medical text “Gray’s Anatomy” coincides with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the famous book’s genesis, Hayes combed through nineteenth-century letters and medical-school records, learning that, besides Henry Gray, the brilliant scholar and surgeon who wrote the text, another anatomist was crucial to the book’s popularity: Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided its painstaking drawings. Hayes moves nimbly between the dour streets of Victorian London, where Gray and Carter trained at St. George’s Hospital, and the sunnier classrooms of a West Coast university filled with athletic physical therapists in training, where he enrolls in anatomy classes and discovers that “when done well, dissection is very pleasing aesthetically.” – The New Yorker The Anatomist A True Story of Grays Anatomy PDF

“All laud and honor to Hayes….In perusing the body’s 650 muscles and 206 bones, he has made the case that we are, as the psalmist wrote, “fearfully and wonderfully made” and that dissection has an aesthetic all its own. The act of carving open a body becomes, in this context, a perverse act of love, a desecration that consecrates “the extraordinary, the inner architecture of the human form.” – The Washington Post

“How do you write a book about someone about whom next to nothing is known? For most writers, the answer would be move on to the next subject. But Bill Hayes has an unusual set of skills. The author of previous books on insomnia and blood, he is part science writer, part memoirist, part culture explainer. “The Anatomist,” his appealing new book about the man behind Gray’s Anatomy, combines his search for the remaining traces of Henry Gray with a memoir of his own experience as a dissection student and a scalpel’s-eye tour of the body.” – The New York Times

“Some of [Hayes’s] most memorable writing describes the dissection classes he attended in San Francisco. We are treated to a selection of fascinating anatomical snippets about, for example, how to trace evidence of the sealed hole in the fetal heart through which the mother’s blood enters; or how to find the kidney in a cadaver; or that blood flowing out of the heart is first used to feed the heart itself; or, best of all, a structural analysis of how the Queen manages to deliver such a uniquely restrained wave.” – Nature: The International Weekly Journal of Science

The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal volume came to be. A blend of history, science, culture, and Hayes’s own personal experiences, The Anatomist is this author’s most accomplished and affecting work to date.

With passion and wit, Hayes explores the significance of Gray’s Anatomy and explains why it came to symbolize a turning point in medical history. But he does much, much more. Uncovering a treasure trove of forgotten letters and diaries, he illuminates the astonishing relationship between the fiercely gifted young anatomist Henry Gray and his younger collaborator H. V. Carter, whose exquisite anatomical illustrations are masterpieces of art and close observation. Tracing the triumphs and tragedies of these two extraordinary men, Hayes brings an equally extraordinary era–the mid-1800s–unforgettably to life.

But the journey Hayes takes us on is not only outward but inward–through the blood and tissue and organs of the human body–for The Anatomistchronicles Hayes’s year as a student of classical gross anatomy, performing with his own hands the dissections and examinations detailed by Henry Gray 150 years ago. As Hayes’s acquaintance with death deepens, he finds his understanding and appreciation of life deepening in unexpected and profoundly moving ways.

The Anatomist is more than just the story of a book. It is the story of the human body, a story whose beginning and end we all know and share but that, like all great stories, is infinitely rich in between.

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The Authors

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and the author of four books: Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s MemoirFive Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of BloodThe Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy, and Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me (coming February 2017), and is currently at work on a new book Sweat: A History of Exercise.

A photographer as well as a writer, his photos have appeared in The New YorkerVanity FairGrantaThe Wall Street Journal, and on CBS Evening News.  His portraits of his partner, the late Oliver Sacks, appear in the recent collection of Dr. Sacks’s suite of final essays Gratitude.
 
Hayes has been a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, the recipient of a Leon Levy Foundation grant, and a Resident Writer at Blue Mountain Center. He has also served as a guest lecturer at Stanford, NYU, UCSF, University of Virginia, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Dimensions and Characteristics of The Anatomist A True Story of Grays Anatomy PDF

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; 1st edition (December 26, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345456890
  • International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345456892
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.89 x 0.87 x 8.29 inches

Top reviews

B. Wilfong
 “For my part, I take my stand in human anatomy.” (3.5 stars)

October 10, 2021

This is a book that annoyed me occasionally while I was reading it, and yet I enjoyed it. Had it been a longer book my opinion might be different, but for what it is, the length is just about right. In THE ANATOMIST, author Bill Hayes examines the lives (what little is known) of Henry Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter, the author and illustrator of the famous anatomy book, GRAY’s ANATOMY.

It is an interesting read, and Mr. Hayes seems to have done his homework to prepare to write this text, but too often for my tastes THE ANATOMIST is too much about Bill Hayes. He slips himself center stage at the most awkward moments. It is almost as if he cannot help himself. Hayes’ healthy ego is a distraction, especially in chapter 11 of this text.

The greatest strength and weakness of this book come from the same place. The source for much of the material and research for this book come from the diaries and letters of Henry Vandyke Carter. Mr. Hayes does a very nice job of analyzing the nature of diary writing, and often makes good observations about such personal writing that are excellent to ponder, even outside the realm of the subject of this book. Consider what Hayes says about when diaries stop being produced. “A diary does not come to a neat, tidy ending. The diarist just doesn’t show up one day.” Anyone who has kept a journal or diary knows the truth of that statement.
On the flip side, too often Hayes will assume what an entry by Carter really means. He seems to base this on his personal opinion/desires as opposed to what the circumstances at that time might suggest. I realize conjecture is hard to avoid in a work like this, but even when I agreed with Hayes’ assumptions it annoyed me. It just seemed unfair to his subjects, and it happens a little too often in this text.

An especially lovely section is when Hayes makes a enchanting and sentimental corollary between connective tissue on our bodies, and what ‘connection’ means in our everyday lives. It is a delightful observation that occurs on page 173 in the hardcover edition of this book.
Another device that works well is the division of text between the lives of the authors of the famous anatomy book, and Mr. Hayes learning about anatomy and doing lots of dissection with cadavers at UCSF.

Here are some lines that jumped out at me:
• “Knowledge is endless, and the most experienced person will find that he still has much to learn.”
• “There is no better gauge of a friendship, I believe, than the ability to do nothing together…”
• “I think that one of the strangest things about losing a longtime partner: the very person you most want to talk to about your loss is the person who is gone.”

THE ANATOMIST ends very well. I think the last paragraph is almost a darn perfect manner in which to end this text. I don’t think this book is anything brilliant, but I unexpectedly enjoyed this read

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