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Anatomy Modules

http://www.rad.washington.edu/anatomy/index.html

Anatomy modules and radiographs from the University of Washington's Radiology Department that show skeletal bones in the human body.

Author: Michael L. Richardson, MD (mrich@u.washington.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: Knee; Shoulder; Skeleton; Radiographs

Anatomy of the Human Body (Gray's Anatomy)

http://www.bartleby.com/107/

"The Bartleby.com edition of Gray¹s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings‹many in color‹from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn."

Author: Henry Gray (steve@bartleby-inc.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

The Bones of the Skull

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/skullvr/

This site features a downloadable program "developed to help students learn the features and bones of the human skull." It runs on Macintosh or Windows computers, and consists of QuickTime VR object movies and an interactive textbook. Download is free, but you must register first.

Author: Information Commons, University of Iowa (info-commons@uiowa.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

The Columbia/HCA Virtual Body

http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp

This website has "a series of elaborate presentations of the various parts and functions of the human body" ADAM Software provides the anatomical images for Columbia/HCA's Virtual Body Project. (requires Shockwave plug-in)

Author: Columbia/HCA and NewOrder Media

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: heart; skeleton; brain; digestive system

ErgoWeb: The Place for Ergonomics

http://www.ergoweb.com/

Provides a collection of ergonomics standards, guidelines, background information, job review and analysis tools and checklists, biomedical analysis tools, case studies, anthropometry data, and other ergonomics resources.

Author: ErgoWeb, Inc. (inquire@ergoweb.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Health & Medical Sciences--Occupational Health & Safety

Science & Technology--Engineering

Keywords: Ergonomics; Human Factors

The eSkeletons Project

http://www.eSkeletons.org/

A 3D, interactive look at the human skeleton. View various parts of the body from different, rotating views. Also compare human and baboon skeletons.

Author: John Kappelman et al.

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: Human body

The Heart: An Online Exploration

http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html

"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I have heard many things in hell." So said Edgar Allen Poe's character in "The Tell-Tale Heart". Now you can hear the sounds of beating hearts, thanks to the Franklin Institute Science Museum, which offers an entire virtual museum of the heart for your inspection. Listen to healthy and diseased hearts, view Quicktimes of open-heart surgery and echocardiograms, review x-rays, learn how the heart works, even take an animated trip down a coronary artery. You can learn how to correctly take your own pulse (five different ways) and how to keep your heart healthy. There's also advice on the importance of correctly matching blood types when you require a transfusion. Resource materials for teachers are provided, along with on-line activities and "the heart in popular culture" (songs, films, poetry). Your heart will thank you. "

Author: The Franklin Institute Science Museum

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: heart; history

InnerBody: Human Anatomy On-line

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

"The place for fun, interactive and educational views of the human body. This program contains over one hundred illustrations of the human body. InnerBody uses Java applets to show images and select anatomy parts. Java support must be enabled in your browser." You can explore at your own pace, or follow along in a series of anatomy tutorials.

Author: Informative Graphics Corp.

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Retina Reference

http://retina.anatomy.upenn.edu/~lance/retina/retina.html

Scientific and mathematical discussion of the retina. Information about molecular and cellular structure. Includes a bibliography of vision-related articles, diagrams, mathematical equations, and sections on the retinal neuron and the anatomy of eye.

Author: Lance Hahn (lxh22@psu.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: Eye; Neural; Ophthalmology; Vision

A Screenwriter's Guide to the Autopsy

http://www.neosoft.com/~uthman/Autop.html

"The Routine Autopsy. The Procedure Related in Narrative Form. A Guide for Screenwriters and Novelists. The purpose of this paper is to make available to screenwriters, novelists, and other interested individuals an authentic detailed narrative account of a routine postmortem examination (autopsy) as performed by a pathologist on a patient who has died in hospital. I have based this on my experiences as a practicing pathologist in both academic and community practice settings in several U.S. cities. I have deviated from the dispassionate, unbiased language of my profession to present a more subjective, sensorial view, which I think should be of greater benefit to those using this information for the purposes of entertainment."

Author: Ed Uthman, M.D. (uthman@neosoft.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: Pathology; Medicine; Medical Examiner; Forensics; Pathologist

Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World

http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

Here you'll find "the latest of the biomedical research reports that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute publishes for general readers. Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World guides us on a journey into the fascinating world of the senses and the nervous system, where researchers are working to understand problems of great potential benefit." There are reports not only on how we see, hear, and smell, but on what can go wrong with these senses and possible treatments.

Author: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (webmaster@hhmi.org)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

Keywords: senses; brain

The Visible Human Project

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

The Visible Human Project is "the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies." "The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts."

Author: National Library of Medicine

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Anatomy & Physiology

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