Anatomy 101

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Body Electric
2. Chapter Two - Blood, Bones, and Breath
3. Chapter Three - Dissection and Taboo
4. Chapter Four - Mapping the Machine
5. Chapter Five - Organs and Orifices
6. Chapter Six - Circuits and Fluids
7. Chapter Seven - Flesh and Identity
8. Chapter Eight - X-Rays and Eyeballs
9. Chapter Nine - Plastic, Steel, and Silicone
10. Chapter Ten - The Digital Body
11. Chapter Eleven - The Dead Body
12. Chapter Twelve - Beyond the Flesh

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Body Electric BEFORE SCIENCE, SURGERY, or even the word anatomy, there was just the body. Bleeding, breathing, moving, and dying. But to early humans, that wasn’t biology. It was mystery. Something divine. Or cursed. Or possessed. We didn’t start by studying the body. We feared it. We worshipped it. We guessed. If you were designing life from scratch, would you go with soft bags of meat and bones, constantly leaking, breaking, aging, and dying? Probably not. But evolution didn’t care about aesthetics, it cared about survival. So the body became a shell for the brain, a vehicle for reproduction, and a meat armor to move through space. What we call the body is just a series of...