Title:
Anatomies : a cultural history of the human body
Author:
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.
ISBN:
9780393239881
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2013.
Physical Description:
xxv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Abstract:
Combining science, history and culture, this guide to the human body explores every aspect of our anatomy from ancient body art to modern-day plastic surgery and discusses why some people are left-handed and why some cultures think the soul resides in the liver.
