THE MAKING OF MR. GRAY’S ANATOMY By Ruth Richardson Oxford University Press, $29.95, 322 pages Though it might come as a surprise to fans of the popular television series, “Grey’s Anatomy” (now in its ...

Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar wants his project, upright on the table, to surpass a historically tainted anatomy reference, which lies open in the foreground. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) As Dr.

“Anthropodermic” books might sound like the stuff of horror movies, but Megan Rosenbloom researched their very real history for the new book ‘Dark Archives’ In 2014, Harvard’s Houghton Library made ...

A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...

THE human body can fascinate and enthral – but it can also appal. Two new books highlight our complex relationship with the body and, interestingly for the queasy 21st century, don’t blink at the ...

Gavin Francis is not a traditional traveler. The landscape he explores is human anatomy, his maps are x-rays. “I journey through the body as I listen to my patients’ lungs, manipulate their joints, or ...