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Grant's Dissector

Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy
By Anne M. R. Agur and Arthur F. Dalley.
11th ed, 848 pp, $74.95.
Baltimore, MD, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
ISBN-13 978-0-7817-7055-2.
Grant's Dissector
By Patrick W. Tank.
13th ed, 304 pp, $49.95.
Baltimore, MD, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
ISBN-13 978-0-7817-5848-2.

JAMA. 2008;299(2):225-226.

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For medical textbooks to maintain their primacy and relevance for more than 65 years attests to the unchanging necessity of gross anatomy as a basic foundation for a medical career. Throughout the years, the various editions of the eponymously titled Grant's Atlas of Anatomy have achieved iconic status and reinforced the publisher's claim to their being the "authoritative anatomy atlas" and the "gold standard" for human anatomical dissection. The original edition, authored by J. C. B. Grant in 1943, went through 6 editions before authorship transferred to J. E. Anderson and then presently to Anne Agur and Arthur Dalley.

The atlas was preceded by Grant's Dissector, to which it has been complementary ever since. Wearing an embossed heart on its sleeved soft cover that nestles a CD inside, the hefty atlas encompasses the full range of anatomy by dividing the body into 9 topographical regions (in sequential order—thorax, abdomen, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

G. H. Sperber, BDS, MS, PhD, FICD, Reviewer
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
gsperber@ualberta.ca

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