by Bernard Knight, Godfrey Cave · Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9781854710840
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«Discovering the Human Body» is the illustrated popular science book on human anatomy by Bernard Knight and Godfrey Cave, in hardback (198 pages, in English).
The book explains how pioneers of medicine solved the mysteries of the structure and function of the human body. With historical illustrations —anatomical plates, dissection scenes and diagrams of the brain and spine—, it covers anatomy and physiology from the earliest discoveries to current knowledge.
Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd published this second edition in 1992, with the subtitle «How Pioneers of Medicine Solved the Mysteries of the Body's Structure and Function».
Aimed at students and health professionals and at general readers interested in the history of medicine.
Bernard Henry Knight is a Welsh forensic pathologist and writer. He became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980.
