The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy. Ruth Richardson

The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy



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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Page: 337
ISBN: 0199552991, 9780199552993

From Publishers Weekly

In this, the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Gray's Anatomy, Richardson, a scholar of the history of science, relates how this classic came into being. Richardson does a creditable job of explaining how two young doctors, Henry Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter, teamed together to create an anatomy manual better than any available for students in surgery. Their version had better and larger drawings (in fact, their size, which contributed to the book's success, was an accident: the illustrations were meant to be 25% smaller), simpler text and a very successful integration of surgical techniques with anatomical features. Richardson also impressively reviews the technicalities of scientific publication in the mid-19th century. Far less successful is the analysis of the two men behind Gray's Anatomy. With little pertinent material extant, Richardson is left to surmise with a plethora of perhaps and probably. Conversations between the two authors, between Gray and his publisher, and between the publisher and the printer are simply manufactured. Nonetheless, Richardson uses Gray's Anatomy as a springboard to present an interesting slice of scientific history. Illus. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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*Starred Review* In August 1858 the publisher Parker and Son issued the most famous teaching text of the modern era, Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical, by Henry Gray, lecturer on the subject at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, with drawings by fellow anatomy teacher H. V. Carter, by then in Bombay assuming a professorship of anatomy. The product of three years’ work, it almost miscarried at the last instant. Richardson recounts the book’s story in chapters on author, illustrator, publisher, conception (either by Gray or Parker fils, no one now knows), preparation (i.e., through new dissections), creation (involving printers, engravers, binders, etc.), publication, and immediate reception. Time and again, she admits that precisely what happened and who was responsible are unknown and may remain so. But then she presents the evidence and reasoning to forge ahead, anyway, without worrying—indeed, welcoming—that future discoveries may prove her wrong. She plunges us into Victorian book manufacturing, including financing; corpse procurement under the first British regulation of it; the superiority of Gray’s to previous anatomy tutors; the calculating egoism of Gray and the decency and human vulnerability of Carter. This just isn’t the dry, academic tome you might expect. Though a month late for the sesquicentennial it celebrates, it’s a book about a book that is a perfect triumph of the form. --Ray Olson



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