This memoir begins when a first-year medical student enters the anatomy lab and meets Eve, the cadaver donated to science. Instead of repulsion, she discovers a profound respect for the person Eve once was.

As dissections progress, the author balances clinical detachment with human empathy, confronting ethical questions and emotional challenges that arise when dissecting a human body.

Venturing beyond the lab, she visits historical sites—from an Irish autopsy facility to Vesalius’s University of Padua—to trace the evolution of anatomical study. Engaging anecdotes about body snatchers and early anatomists reveal the uneasy origins of medical science.

Key Features

• Insight into a medical student’s first anatomy lab experience
• Thoughtful reflections on mortality, ethics, and the human form
• Historical perspective on the practices of early anatomists

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