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Excerpts from Essential Anatomy Dissector by John. T Hansen. Copyright © 1998 by Williams & Wilkins. Reprinted by permission of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Excerpt from “A Green Crab’s Shell” from Atlantis by Mark Doty. Copyright © 1995 by Mark Doty. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpt from The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone by Seamus Heaney. Copyright ©2004 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC and Faber and Faber Ltd. Excerpts from Death, Dissection and the Destitue by Ruth Richardson. Copyright © 1987, 2000 by Ruth Richardson. By permission of University of Chicago Press. Excerpts from “Post-Traumatic Stress Among Medical Students in the Anatomy Dissection Laboratory” by Peter Finkelstein and Lawrence H. Mathers, Clinical Anatomy, 3: 219–26 (1990). By permission of Clinical Anatomy. Excerpt from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill. Copyright Nevill Coghill 1951. Copyright © the Estate of Nevill Coghill, 1958, 1960, 1975, 1977. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Excerpt from “Five Poems for Grandmothers: Part V” from Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976–1986 by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1987 Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. “Late Fragment” from A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1989 by Raymond Carver. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc. All images are from De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, except the image on page 30 which is from Anatomia Humani Corporis, Centum & Quinque Tabuli by Govard Bidloo. By permission of Brown University Library.

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