is grey's anatomy an actual textbook, like capmbell's biology, etc.?
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Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Gray's Anatomy, is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. The book was first published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in Great Britain in 1858, and the following year in the United States. The book's British author died after the publication of the 1860 second edition, at the age of 34, but his much-praised book was continued by others and on November 24, 2004, the 39th British edition was released.Between 1860 and 1880 seven editions of the text book were published in Great Britain, with the 9th edition published in 1880. It was during this period that development of the book appears to have branched with the publishing of the first dedicated U.S. edition of the book, possibly in 1878 (details on this are scarce and hard to come by). While development of the British edition of the text continued (and new British editions continued to appear), different U.S. editions were also published.\n\nThe 1878 U.S. edition appears to have started edition numbering afresh (despite the British version's prior publication in the U.S.). This "first" U.S. edition roughly corresponded to the eighth British edition, with consecutively numbered further U.S. editions appearing thereafter. This led to the existence, for many years, of two main "flavours" or "branches" of Gray's Anatomy: the U.S. and the British one. This can easily cause misunderstandings and confusion, especially when quoting from or trying to purchase a certain edition.As of February 2005, the latest edition of Gray's Anatomy is the 39th edition, published on November 25, 2004 in the U.K. and November 24, 2004 in the U.S., which is also available on a CD-ROM format. The publisher is Churchill Livingstone in the U.K. while it is C.V. Mosby (Churchill Livingstone in the U.S.) in the U.S., which is published in New York City. The two books are almost identical, with minor changes made to take into account differences in British and American terminology (E.g. Adrenaline vs Epinephrine).\n\nA version of Gray's Anatomy called Gray's Anatomy for Students has also been published. October 5, 2004 in the United Kingdom and October 15, 2004 in the United States Churchill Livingstone is the publisher. However, it should be noted that this is an entirely new book, written from scratch, sharing only the name of the classic.\n\nOlder editions of the book continue to be reprinted and sold. On the World Wide Web, there are many offers for what seem to be reprints of the 1901 (probably U.S.) edition. They may serve artistic use because their companion illustrations and anatomical cross-sections are renowned for their rustic and often haunting presentation. Nevertheless, the usefulness of such reprints for acquiring up-to-date medical knowledge is severely limited.\n\nHenry Gray wrote the original version of Gray's Anatomy with an audience of medical students and physicians in mind, especially surgeons. For many decades however, precisely because Gray's textbook became such a classic, successive editors made major efforts to preserve its position as possibly the most authoritative text on the subject in the English language. Toward this end, a long term strategy appears to have been to have the book contain a fully comprehensive account of the anatomical and medical knowledge available at the time of publication of each edition.\n\nKeeping in mind the explosion of medical knowledge in the 20th century, it is easily appreciated that this led to a vast expansion of the book, which acutely threatened to collapse under its own weight in a metaphorical and physical sense. From the 35th edition onward, increased efforts have been made to reverse this trend and keep the book readable by students. Nevertheless, the 38th edition contained 2092 pages in large format. This edition still might best serve as an "ultim
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i think Grey's Anatomy does happen in real life.. Maybe it's because nurses and doctors spend a lot of time at work that they tend to be intimate with one another..
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I think you will have to learn to like it.  There are a lot of required Biology units in Med school.
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No, but here is the teacher's guide to the book.\nhttp://www.homerhickam.com/educators/rbguide.shtml\n\nFOUND IT!!! Here is Chapt. 1, short too!\n\nhttp://www.homerhickam.com/cgi-bin/included/books_chapter.cgi?id=2
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I hope I could be of help...If you search at the search engine "free medical ebooks" it will show you pages that you can choose from that meets your standards, but I will warn you, there are no free medical books, you can get it dirt cheap on line, eBay, I'm myself in medical so I know. Good luck......
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Go to the textbook publisher's website and see if you can find anything.
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The Science Book of the Human Body : A Layman's Introduction to Human Anatomy
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Another textbook question...
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I have only seen Grays Anatomy a few times but I like it better than ER. there have been so many new characters and story plots I can't figure it out any longer.
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Too broad of a question regarding curriculum.  However, text book companies are the real driving source of all curriculums in schools.  You might want to contact some of those publishers.
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Yes.  Look at www.keller.edu
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i was looking on ebay when i was going to buy books for the step 1.  there are usually good deals there.  but since it's study time, the prices have probably gone up.  \n\nare you taking 1, 2 or 3?  i really like the board review series for most of the basic and clinical sciences.  but for some subjects, i've gone into other serieses.
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The cover of this book is kinda like what you're describing.  It's the companion book to the PBS series on evolution.
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Never buy a new textbook...it's a waste of money.  Goto half.com and see if they dont' have it.
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It's a very interesting show. I have to record it because it comes on at the same time as Grey's Anatomy. I think it's a great show, with believable characters!!
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I'm not familiar with that one.  You've sparked my interest I'll probably go to the library and check it out.\n\n/doc
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Going to med school?\nI suggest you read the books then...