teaching - kbrakora

Class Resources

General Human Anatomy & Lab
IB131 & IB131L

Human Medical Interest
Live Operating Room
Dr. G. Medical Examiner (Discovery Health Channel)
"Three Famous Autopsies" - George II, Napoleon, Frederick III

Journals and Academic Publications
(Cal students: use proxy server for off-campus access)

The Anatomical Record: Anatomy and evolution

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia: Veterinary anatomy
Journal of Morphology: Vertebrates and invertebrates
The Journal of Anatomy: Experimental studies of anatomy

Fun Reads on the Side

Harvey's Heart: The Discovery of Blood Circulation, by Andrew Gregory. 2001. 146 pages.

KB: A very short, easy read. Covers the essential medical thinkers from the Greeks through the Renaissance, what Harvey was up against, the main observations and experiments he performed, how he reasoned to his conclusions, and how and why Harvey differed so markedly from his contemporaries.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Maria Roach. 2004. 304 pages.

KB: An opportunity to see the breadth of research utilizing human cadavers, and the often-odd history and politics that surround such research. The author clearly never got quite comfortable with cadavers, and I thought she devoted too much space to clever turns of phrase and quasi-irrelevant commentary. I didn't find it nearly as funny as many readers and reviewers, but I did enjoy the trivia.
Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology
, by John A. Moore. 1999. 544 pages.

[Paraphrased from various reviews]: Moore tells the story of the history of biological thought, from the cave art of Lascaux to molecular genetics, as an illustration of the principles and methods of scientific inquiry. He writes with a clarity that will put most writers of textbooks to shame, while demystifying science and exalting it.
Free pdfs here