Gray's Atlas of Anatomy, 2nd Ed.pdf

A working knowledge of anatomy is not an “optional extra”
for health care professionals – it is fundamental. Acquiring that
knowledge has always challenged even the most motivated
students. Over many generations, learning materials that
aid the process effectively have been warmly welcomed by
students and their teachers (and by patients, who are the
ultimate benefiiaries of that knowledge). I remember my
own students’ response when I fist included illustrations
from Gray’s Anatomy for Students in a lecture—afterward, I
was asked repeatedly for the source of the marvelous pictures.
Looking beyond the “wow” factor that leapt from the pages
of the book, it was clear that an enormous amount of thought
and skill had gone into producing the artwork.
This atlas contains a series of additional outstanding
pieces of anatomical art from the illustrative team of Richard
Tibbitts and Paul Richardson that will complement those in
Gray’s Anatomy for Students, combined with relevant clinical
pictures, surface anatomy, and images from a range of
modern imaging procedures. Of course, anatomy cannot be
learned from books and interactive DVDs alone, no matter
how excellent they may be. Anatomy is a practical subject,
best learned by gaining hands-on experience of the body.
Students should spend as much time as they can examining
cadaveric dissections (if they do not have the opportunity to
dissect themselves) and should always read from screen or
page with the appropriate bones in front of them. They need
to combine and correlate information from a wide variety of
sources in order to gain the working knowledge mentioned
earlier.
This atlas will provide a valuable companion to their studies,
and I am confient that it will remain in their libraries long
after they have completed the early stages of their training.


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