"Sales handles: -profiles anatomists from around the world, from Europe to Africa, Asia, North American and the Middle East -comprehensive history of anatomy, featuring coverage of famous anatomists such as Aristotle, Galen, and Bell, as well as less well known contributors to the field -written by an internationally recognized team of authorities in the field Market description: anatomists, anthropologists, physicians, surgeons, medical personnel, medical students, health related professionals, and historians and anyone interested in the early history of medicine and surgery"- History of Anatomy: An International Perspective is unique in its global approach to studying the development of human anatomy. Though it references widely known anatomists, such as Aristotle, Galen, and Bell, the book also pay homage to less famous contributors to the field and explains their findings. Africa: Egypt Algeria (Trolard) Europe: Austria (Obesteiner) Greece (Aristotle, Galen, Polybus) England (Browne, Lower, Drake, Sibson, Turner) Scotland (Fyfe, Struthers, Bell) Czechoslavakia (Bochdalek) France (Bichat, Cloquet, Dejerine-Klumpke, Dionis, Estienne, Magendie, Vieussens, Sylvius, vicq d’Azyr) Ireland (Colles) Italy (Canano, Colombo, Caesserius, Lancisi, Morgagni, Oddi, Varolio, Vidius) Holland (Stensen, Sylvius, Camper) Germany (Broadmann, Hesselbach, Luschka, Thebesius, Wallenberg, Zuckerkandl) Norway (Raeder) Spain (Gibernat) Sweeden (Swendenborg) Switzerland (His Sr., His Jr., Forel) Asia: India Middle East Israel (Bible and Talmud) Qur’an and Hadeeth Persia (Rhazes, Mesue, al-Tabari, Joveini, Hally Abbas, ibn Sina, Jorjani, Tusi, al-Majlisi) Babylon (Ibn Jazlah) Far East: Japan (Kawaguchi, Sugita, Maeno, Fuseya, Gentaku, Harada, Hoshino, Adachi, Tawara) China (Nei Jing and Wang Qingren) North America: United States (Bigelow, Holmes)