Three Forms of Sudden Death, and Other Reflections on the Grandeur and Misery of the Body
Author: F. Gonzalez-Crussi, 1986

Previously owned vintage hardback book with dust jacket, in excellent condition. A bit of minor, normal shelf wear and edge wear, a few trace scuffs (please see photos); book is in very clean condition, looks nearly new, was gently read and stored. All pages intact, no apparent rips, stains, or missing pages, no writing nor dog-earring, spine is in excellent condition.

This book, published in 1986, is a collection of fascinating essays about the human anatomy and the miseries it has endured and suffered through the centuries. Topics explored include aging, cannibalism, hermaphroditism, the female breast, hair balls, and many more.

Table of Contents
  • Generation: Past, Present, and Future
  • On Aging
  • Sexual Undifferentiation
  • Mors Repentina: An Essay on Three Forms of Sudden Death
  • Our Predaceous Nature
  • The Female Breast
  • The Anorectum
  • The Body and the Emotions
  • Three Theorists of Emotion
  • Some Expressions of the Body (in Four Movements)
Opening paragraphs on jacket's front flap:

When Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi's "Notes of an Anatomist" was published a short time ago, the reviewer in the Times of London, speaking of him as a "myth-maker who has no need of myths to tell his fabulous true stories," went on to describe his book: "Crammed with anecdotes and ancient lore, it discusses grotesques, abnormalities, perplexities, mysteries and marvels" -- all brought to mind and to the reader's attention by the author's exuberant gift for free association with his activities as a practicing pathologist.

In this new collection, the topics that provoke Dr. Gonazlez-Crussi's comments and speculations on the grandeur and misery of the body are even more varied, not to say bizarre, and the anecdotes that illustrate and enrich them are even more exotic, drawn as they are from sources as disparate ad the Chinese classic and the Journal of Pediatrics.

When book was initially released, it retailed for $15.95.

ISBN: 0-06-015629-5

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