THE BODY (HBA 531) - 2010

Books, Equipment, and Dissection Partners

These sheets are also available electronically on the course web page:
http://www.anat.stonybrook.edu/HBA531/

I. Books

1. Grant’s Dissector, 14th ed., P. W. Tank. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (It is keyed to most major
atlases.)
This is our guide to cadaver dissection and should be purchased by everyone.

2. Core Concepts in Anatomy, 2nd edition, J. T. Stern, Jr., 2005 (revised 2010)
This book is a very concise presentation of the most important information. While intended as a
review text, it has taken on a more fundamental role for previous classes. Still, the faculty
recommends that you read a more comprehensive anatomy text (two possibilities listed below). The
newest printing of Core Concepts is available for purchase ($20) from the Department of
Anatomical Sciences in Academic Tower A, Level 8, Room 040. The book is also available in
electronic format ($9.95) at http://www.scribd.com/doc/16954435 , but I recommend you buy the paper copy
instead.

3. A More Comprehensive Anatomy Text, Such As

Essential Clinical Anatomy, 4th edition, K. L. Moore, A. F. Dalley & A. Agur. Wolters Kluwer,
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.

This is an abbreviated version of a rather large text (Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 6th edition) by
the same authors. The large text is very well illustrated and may be preferred by some of you.
However, the abbreviated version is perfectly adequate for this course. There are yet other anatomy
texts that will serve the purpose equally well (see Appendix) in case you have been given a
different text by a friend or family member.
or
Essentials of Gross Anatomy - 2003, J. T. Stern, Jr.. (free online)

This is a well-written (in the opinion of the author), but insufficiently illustrated book that is available
free as .pdf files that can be downloaded from
http://www.anat.stonybrook.edu/HBA531/EGA/EGA2003.html . An important fact to realize is that I
haven’t updated this book in several years. Although it is largely accurate, any new information I have
learned has been included in Core Concepts, so the two books may not agree on every detail. In past
years, groups of students have arranged with Kinkos (or a similar commercial enterprise) to print copies
of Essentials at a reasonable cost, but you may be able to get one free from a previous student. The
course schedule includes daily “page assignments” for EGA-2003.

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 4. Atlas of Human Anatomy, 4th ed., F. H. Netter. Saunders/Elsevier.

This has been a very popular atlas with previous classes, but there are other good atlases in case
you have been given a different one by a friend or family member. For students who prefer a
photographic atlas, we are recommend either Color Atlas of Anatomy (J. W. Rohen, C. Yokochi,
& E. Lütjen-Drecoll, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) or Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy (K. P.
Moses, J. C. Banks, P. B. Nava, D. Petersen, Elsevier Mosby). The latter has fewer photographs but
has accompanying text, drawings, and radiographs that seem quite valuable.

In the lab, each table will be given a free atlas to use during dissection. Some tables will receive the
Netter atlas, others will receive the new Gilroy Atlas of Anatomy (see Appendix), which has been
donated by Thieme publishers in the hope you will like it better.

5. Clinical Sidelights to Core Concepts in Anatomy, J. T. Stern, Jr.. (free online/free on paper)

Paper copies of this document will be distributed to the class. Clinical Sidelights is also available
on the course web page. All students are responsible for the information in Clinical Sidelights. You
should check the web page every now and then to see if new material has been added. Such
material is announced at the beginning of the online document.

6. An Embryology Text, Such As

Before We Are Born, K. L. Moore and T. V. N. Persaud. W. B. Saunders.

or
Langman’s Medical Embryology, T. W. Sadler. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Embryology exams are based on lecture material, so the texts mentioned above are supplements
to the lectures. If you find the lectures not to your liking, they can be totally replaced by one of
these texts.

II Equipment

1. Students will be provided with used dissecting tools free of charge. These must be returned at the end of
the semester. However, if you wish to purchase your own instruments, the following are recommended:

1 No. 4 scalpel handle (plastic or steel)

1 Straight surgical scissors (5 ½") with one blunt and one pointed tip
1 Broad-pointed thumb forceps with serrated ends (5½ - 6")
1 Rat-toothed tissue forceps (5½ - 6")
1 Fine-pointed dissecting forceps (4 - 4 ½") with serrated or smooth ends
1 Probe with semi-blunt tip
1 5½" - 6" straight hemostatic forceps.

Throughout the course we will provide scalpel blades free of charge.

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 2. Any unprotected clothing worn in the lab will be rendered useless for social occasions. Either wear
knee-length laboratory coats over your clothes, or reserve certain clothing for lab use only. The
department has a limited supply of used (but washed) scrubs that we will give away until this supply is
exhausted. They may be obtained from Daniel Soto, HSC, Level 2, Room 136. You have a free period
on Thursday morning, August 26. This might be a good time to pick up scrubs.

3. Dissecting or surgical gloves are strongly recommended even though embalmed cadavers do not
represent a significant health risk. Although I have read that the infectious agents (prions) causing
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and Kuru may be inactivated by phenol in the embalming fluid, you cannot
rely on this, so you should certainly wear gloves when dissecting central nervous system tissue. The
good news is that these diseases are extraordinarily rare in urban populations, and there has never been a
report of a scientist contracting one of these diseases from simple handling of human tissue. We will
provide you with gloves to use on the first day of dissection, but after that you must purchase your own.
Purely as a service to students, the anatomy department will sell boxes of 100 Purple Knight nitrile
gloves for $10.00.

III. Partners for Dissection

Four students are assigned to each dissecting table. If any two or more students wish to work with one
another, they should submit their names by email to linda.benson@stonybrook.edu , or in person to
Linda Benson (the anatomy department's secretary) located in HSC Academic Tower A, T8-040, no
later than 5:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 26, 2010. If you do not request dissection partners, an
assignment will be made at random.

Appendix 1

Below are lists of other books you may wish to look at or consider purchasing. All the books should be in the HSC
Library for you to peruse. You can also see many of them in Dr. Stern's office. It may even be true that one of the major
anatomy texts or atlases will appeal to you more than those designated above. The faculty will be happy to discuss with
you the merits or demerits of substitution.

Anatomy Texts

Gray’s Anatomy for Students, R. L. Drake, W. Vogl, A. W. M. Mitchell. Elsevier.

Grant's Method of Anatomy, J. V. Basmajian & C. E. Slonecker. Williams and Wilkins.
Essentials of Human Anatomy, R. T. Woodburne & W. E. Burkel. Oxford U. Press.
Clinical Gross Anatomy. A Guide for Dissection Study and Review, G. L. Colburn & J. E. Skandalakis.
Parthenon.
Hollinshead’s Textbook of Anatomy, C. Rosse & P. Gaddum-Rosse. Lippincott-Raven.
Anatomy: Development, Function, Clinical Correlations, W. J. Larsen. Saunders.
Anatomy, A Regional Study of Human Structure, R. O'Rahilly. W. B. Saunders.
Anatomy as a Basis for Clinical Medicine, E. C. B. Hall-Craggs. Urban and Schwarzenberg.
Essentials of Clinical Anatomy, R. Ger, P. Abrahams, & T. R. Olson. Parthenon.

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 Gross Anatomy in the Practice of Medicine, F. J. Slaby, S. K. McCune, & R. Summers. Lea and Febiger.
Human Anatomy. Color Atlas and Text, J. A. Gosling, P. F. Harris, I. Whitmore, P. L. T. Williams, Mosby.

Anatomy Atlases

Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy, A. M. R. Agur & A. F. Dalley. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Atlas of Anatomy, A. M. Gilroy, B. R. MacPherson, L. M. Ross. Thieme
Anatomy, A Regional Atlas of the Human Body, C. D. Clemente. Urban & Schwarzenberg.
Atlas of Anatomy, P. W. Tank & T. R. Gest. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
A.D.A.M. Student Atlas of Anatomy, T. R. Olson. Williams and Wilkins.

Radiologic Anatomy Atlases

An Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy, J. Weir & P. H. Abrahams. Mosby Year Book
Netter’s Concise Radiologic Anatomy, E. Weber, J. Vilensky, S. Carmichael. Elsevier.
Human Cross-Sectional Anatomy, Atlas of Body Sections and CT Images, H. Ellis, B. Logan, A. Dixon.
Butterworth-Heinemann
Basic Atlas of Cross-Sectional Anatomy, W. J. Bo, I. Meschan, & W. A. Krueger. W. B. Saunders.
Atlas of Radiologic Anatomy, L. Wicke. Urban and Schwarzenberg.
Radiographic Anatomy - A Working Atlas, H. W. Fischer. McGraw Hill.

Embryology Texts

Human Embryology, W. J. Larsen. Churchill Livingstone.

The Developing Human, K. L. Moore. Saunders.
Netter’s Atlas of Human Embryology, L. R. Cochard, Icon Learning Systems.

Miscellaneous

Case Studies in Anatomy, E. Lachman. Oxford.

Anatomical Case Histories, L. K. Schneider. Yearbook Med. Publ.
Netter’s Clinical Anatomy, J. T. Hansen and D. R. Lambert. Icon Learning Systems.
Surface Anatomy. The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Examination. J. S. P. Lumley, Churchill Livingstone.