An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can’t be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases.
All are wines Wagner himself enjoys. At least one is under $10 and two are over $50. Over the past eighteen years, every time, he told me, the least expensive wine averages the highest ranking, and th...
A brain bank spokesman showed me around. Down the hall from the dissection room was the computer room. The spokesman referred to this as the brains of the operation which in any other operation would...
Two to three tablespoonfuls was equal to two pounds of meat, with the advantage that it lends to the laborers’ potatoes and peas a very agreeable taste!
Eye cap is a simple ten-cent piece of plastic. It is slightly larger than a contact lens, less flexible, and considerably less comfortable. The plastic is repeatedly lanced through, so that small, sha...
Comparing traditional bouillon with gelatin-based broth. The latter was more distasteful, more putrescible, less digestible, less nutritious, and . . . moreover, it often brought on diarrhea.
By letter in Morse code. Kittinger says it was a joke, but Simons didn’t take it that way. (Morse code has always been a tough medium for humor.) In his memoir Man High, Simons recalls thinking that t...
Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.
You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.
What can be done for these men? A lot. The art of phalloplasty—crafting a working penis from other parts of a patient’s body—has come a long way (thanks in no small part to the transgender community).
We had no problems, no conflicts, Mars500 Commander Sergei Ryazansky is saying.
To quantify the benefit side of the equation, a dollar amount is assigned to each saved human life. As calculated by the Urban Institute in 1991, you are worth $2.7 million.
This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best....
They live like rice, too, pressed together: a moist, solid entity. If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don’t recommend), you can hear them feeding. A...
There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial service was closed-coffin. We got it anyway. They’d shampooed and waved...
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. suggests 'a sailor in space.' suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.
The organism is driven toward nature’s singular goal—conception, the passing on of one’s genes—and anything that stands in the way is pushed into the background.
The only conclusion I feel sure of at this point, he mused, is that women are too complicated.
The one image I eventually found of Alexis St. Martin as a whole young man is in a painting by Dean Cornwell entitled Beaumont and St. Martin—part of the Pioneers of American Medicine series commissio...
The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the human body in favor of some random notion you’ve hatched or heard an...