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 Perfect June 24, 2010
G. Costa (Brazil, South America)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Im from Brazil and first I was afraind about the shipment and taxes that could be applied in customs, However, the shipment was easy and fas, in a week i was with the product and it was great. Perfect for Medicine students.
Netter's anatomy book June 15, 2010
TN
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The used nook was in good condition. I was happy about it. The description for the product was accurate.
Netters is right on! June 9, 2010
Donald R. Wheeler (Gilmer Texas)
My name is Don Wheeler, owner of Corrective Massage Therapy & instructor for Paul St.John of Intergated Neurosomatic Therapy. We have been using Netters Atlas to Human Atlas for years both in our clinics & in our class rooms. It's one of the best referance materials your going to find. Buy it. I have paid up to $90 in retail stores but if you shop around you can find it for half that (used, works as good as new :D). I do reccomend it to students & PROs alike.
DR
 Find All the Body's Muscles with This Atlas May 26, 2010
M. Palmer (Los Angeles, CA)
Wow! The illustrations, the robust labeling the completeness. Wow. All in all a really good buy. A bit pricey seeing that you can't rely on it for dissection if you prefer traditional more "real pictorials". But here's the thing. It depends o how you learn. If you want a more life-like illustration because it allows you to connect in a `REAL' way to your tasks, Netter's atlas isn't the best option for you.
On the other hand, the vivid and colorful illustrations are a dream for memorization and when you know where something is, you know! If you're in the massage or holistic niche you should also pick up Meagan Holub's The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a massage Therapist. This book is a `can't live without it' read for the recent graduate or even the current student. Teaching any professional how to successfully grow, maintain and increase the profitability of a business, the right way!
That's right 4 out of 5 STARS! (to med students) May 11, 2010
William Mcfadden (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree that this book is one of the best atlases on the market today. It clearly delineates structures that are very difficult to see on a cadaver, and it does a great job of showing you what should have been there before your cadaver was mutilated by a million students. The book is very well organized with color tabs for each section and it is fairly easy to open the book and find what you want without consulting the index. It even has cross references at the top of relevant pages to help you get from one place to another However, this book still has weaknesses that can make it rather frustrating, especially to a newcomer.
Its first weakness lies in the number of words on each drawing. Every drawing has, what appear to be, a million tags. If you're a beginner at anatomy, you will end up spending most of your study time playing Where's Waldo looking for a particular structure amongst the mess of tags on each picture. Who wants to spend even 10 minutes trying to find just one particular structure on several pages and from different angles? What a waste of time.
Second, this book tries to bring in clinically related pictures, more particularly with cardiac malformations and neurological deficits. While these can be helpful, there is almost no text to guide you through the swirling pictures that are masterfully done. This really leaves the reader, who might be studying anatomy exclusively, stuck in the mud without a paddle.
Finally, this book labels all the junk whether the structure is meaningless and minute or not! If you're getting your graduate degree, it's wonderful, but a student in medical school doesn't care about every hair follicle. There are so many parallel lines leading your eyes from the tag on the margin of the page to the structure on the picture you might go cross-eyed while figuring out which structure is yours. In other words, you won't be able to discern what is important and what isn't by picking up this book; you're just going to get it all!
In summary, this book is very detailed, and represents probably the best anatomical paintings ever depicted. However, in using this book, you are going to get every detail about anatomy, making the pages very, very busy and frustrating to someone that doesn't know what they are looking for ahead of time. To remedy these problems, I suggest using the Netter's anatomy software. It will get you any tag you want highlighted, at the tap of a button. Also, Color Atlas of Anatomy, a photographic study in anatomy, is a source that tends to focus more on the important anatomy while leaving the minutia to other books. So, it is a killer atlas and a clear winner, but if you're studying anatomy for the first time, your going to need a bit of patients to work through this book.
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