Autopsy

One of the first sayings every medical student encounters is: The dead teach the living. Medicine nowadays uses many new technologies, interventional and imaging methods, robotic surgery, molecular tests. For the physician, however, one of the most effective tools of knowledge and instruction remains the autopsy, which is older than most surgical procedures. In the history of medicine, autopsies have provided all generations of physicians with the most knowledge for understanding the structure and function of the human body in health and disease. They have not changed fundamentally over the centuries and are still a "living bridge" between the ancient past and today. This popular educational book by three doctors offers a walk through the history of knowledge of the human body. It is intended for the general reading public, who are looking for information and instruction on a topic that is somewhat uncomfortable and marginalised nowadays, but which touches every person in some form with unavoidable certainty.