The Anatomist - by Bill Hayes

La storia dell' Anatomia di Gray, uno dei più famosi libri di anatomia umana in lingua inglese, attraverso i diari e le lettere di Henry Vandyke Carter, il misconosciuto autore del suo splendido corredo iconografico. Bill Hayes, con questo libro, non solo penetra nelle fibre più intime della vita di H.V. Carter ma, attraverso la dissezione in prima persona dei cadaveri, anatomizza anche la propria vita fino a scoprire le più profonde, e toccanti, connessioni fra i vivi e i morti.

What is past - the past - does not, or will it, detach itself and remain where it was (or where it might have been intended to have remained) but it must bring itself forward, and smilingly, or otherwise, present itself as an old friend.

Bill Hayes - The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy.

(libro consigliato dal dr. F. Merolla)

Bibliografia: 

Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/107/. 

Vessels of Stone: Lenin's "Circulatory Disturbance of the Brain"

Many have wondered what might have become of the totalitarian state Lenin founded on merciless terror, had he not died so young. He was 52 and at the height of his power when he had his first stroke. Six months later he had another and then a third stroke three months after that. He died 3 months shy of his 54th birthday with cerebral arteries so calcified that when tapped with tweezers at the time of his autopsy, they sounded like stone. The reason for his premature atherosclerosis has yet to be explained. He had a family history of cardiovascular disease and, therefore, is suspected of having had an inherited lipid disorder. Stress too might have had a role in the progression of his atherosclerosis. However, neither would explain the extent of the calcification of his cerebral arteries identified at post mortem examination. A recently described variant of the NT5E mutation might explain such calcification, as well as Lenin's family history of cardiovascular disease, and his premature cerebrovascular attacks.

Vinters H, Lurie L, Mackowiak PA. Vessels of Stone: Lenin's "Circulatory Disturbance of the Brain". Hum Pathol. 2013 Feb 18.

On the morning of January 23, 1924, the pathologist Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov was given a task to embalm Lenin's body to keep it intact until the burial. The body is still on permanent display in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow. (source Wikipedia)

(to note, Abrikosov has also described the so-called Abrikosov's tumor aka Granular cell tumor)

Cineforum 14/12/2011 - The Body Snatcher

La Scuola di Specializzazione in Anatomia Patologica presenta: 

The Body Snatcher 

di R. Wise

 con B. Karloff e B. Lugosi.

La proiezione sarà preceduta da una introduzione del prof. Pettinato sul declino dell’autopsia e sul suo ruolo oggi e sarà seguita da un intervento degli amici della Medicina Legale sull'utilizzo dei tessuti umani in ricerca, fra etica e legislazione. E' atteso inoltre un breve saluto del prof. Buccelli.

Se siete interessati a leggere la short story omonima di Robert Louis Stevenson a cui il film è ispirato, la potete recuperare cliccando sul LINK.