A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...

Gavin Francis is not a traditional traveler. The landscape he explores is human anatomy, his maps are x-rays. “I journey through the body as I listen to my patients’ lungs, manipulate their joints, or ...

As an oncologist and hematologist, Jerome Groopman has spent his career working primarily with cancer and AIDS patients. It might seem unlikely, then, that he would write a book about hope, or that ...

The German-language volume, digitised for the first time, uses paper flaps to demonstrate the different layers of the human body. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...