Grey's Anatomy's Kevin McKidd on Cristina's Big Mistake and His "Upbeat" Episode

Sandra Oh and Kevin McKidd

Grey's Anatomy will lighten up a bit when Kevin McKidd steps behind the camera for the fourth time for Thursday's episode.

Following the plane crash which brought on the deaths of Mark (Eric Dane) and Lexie (Chyler Leigh) and the amputation of Arizona's (Jessica Capshaw) leg Grey's kicked off its ninth season on a very dark note. But McKidd promises he's about to turn that around with what he calls an "upbeat" episode.

Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Is there hope for Cristina and Owen?

"I think the writers felt the audience needed a break, so Episode 4 is really fun," McKidd tells TVGuide.com. "All my other episodes have been quite intense, so it's been really fun to break out of that. I think people will be relieved to take a rest and just get to have fun with the show a little bit after the first few episodes."

The storylines that offer comedic relief include a patient with huge testicles, which McKidd says they had trouble shooting around. Plus: Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) returns, which causes a rift between Jackson (Jesse Williams) and Dr. Webber (James Pickens, Jr.). "Jackson and Richard have a big standoff about the ongoing saga of him dating Catherine," McKidd teases. "Bailey [Chandra Wilson] weighs in on that."

Grey's Anatomy is a drama, however, so there will be one very large obstacle for fans of Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen's relationship. to get through this week. Spoiler Alert: The promos don't lie! "[Cristina] has a sexual relationship with somebody else in Minnesota," McKidd says. Dun Dun Dunnnn! Also... really? Dr. Parker (Steven Culp)? Really?!

But there is hope on the horizon: McKidd says Cristina's exploits are an "empty experience for her."

"It fulfills a certain need for her, but there's certainly not that same thing that she gets when Cristina and Owen are together," he says. "It's going to be really interesting to see how to get back and whether they're able to. They may still love each other, but there might just be too much hurt going on. There might just be too much baggage to really be able to heal or rebuild. It's a painful truth, but I think Cristina and Owen wish they could be back together, even though they're apart."

Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Jessica Capshaw discusses Arizona's fate and what's next

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Primal Pictures Launches Audiology: Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing

New online learning tool offers comprehensive 3D views of the ear and related anatomy for audiology students who prefer interactive, online learning.

London, UK (PRWEB) October 31, 2012

More and more professors are finding that students turn to the internet first for answers and information, making it a challenge to keep them engaged in text-based courses, said Peter Allan, CEO of Primal Pictures. Audiology: Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing helps faculty create a fully engaged, virtual learning experience for students, with detailed clinical content supported by interactive 3D images.

Audiology: Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing offers 3D views of the outer, middle and inner ear, the cochlea, auditory and facial nerves, the central auditory pathway, and illustrates the transmission and transduction of sound in the outer and middle ear. Users can rotate any anatomical view 360 degrees and add or remove layers from the visual models. The product also includes specialized physiology content for the cochlea, auditory nervous system, and encoding sound in the cochlea via the Basilar membrane and hair cells, clinical details on hearing disorders affecting the outer ear, middle ear, inner ear, and the nervous system, and case studies and quizzes to support student comprehension.

Beyond the depth of information available, faculty enjoy the flexibility of this product and are using it in multiple courses, said Catriona Kerr, Associate Director of Sales for Primal Pictures. While some instructors are completely replacing a core textbook with this online tool, others use Audiology: Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing as a supplement in the many courses where students need to refresh their knowledge of the anatomy of the ear.

Primal Pictures range of 3D human anatomy titles are already used by more than 500,000 students and 70,000 educators at over 600 colleges and universities around the world. Its flagship product, Anatomy & Physiology Online, was named the best Digital and Online Resource in the British Medical Associations Medical Book Awards.

More information and subscriptions are available at primalpictures.com/audiology.

ABOUT PRIMAL PICTURES

Primal Pictures offers the most complete, detailed and medically-accurate 3D model of human anatomy for students, educators and health care practitioners. Primal Pictures 3D anatomy software is widely adopted in education and it is used for patient, practitioner and student education in over 20 countries. In 2012, over half a million students will learn anatomy using Primal software. In the past 12 months, Primal won the British Medical Associations annual prize for the best digital resource, and the Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2012, the highest official award that a British business can achieve.

Connie Hofmann Primal Pictures Ltd 215-219-2943 Email Information

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Seeking Hi Resolution of Dance of Death Poster, 1919, Attributed to Josef Fenneker

Greetings all; do any of you lovely Morbid Anatomy readers out there happen to have a high-resolution version of the above image, or know a book that contains it, or another way I might source it? Please send any suggestions to morbidanatomy@gmail.com. Thanks so much!

Full citation for image, from a 2010 Swann Gallery auction:

THE DANCE OF DEATH. 1919.
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEF FENNEKER (1895-1956)
54 1/2x41 inches, 138 1/2x104 cm. 

Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; minor restoration in margins.
Fenneker designed over three hundred movie posters. His recognizable style drew largely on German Expressionism combined with a flair of aesthetic decadence. Written by Fritz Lang, Totentanz is considered by The Internet Movie Database to be a "lost film [in which] a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house" (www.imdb.com). Even without a signature, this poster is clearly the work of Fenneker. Although another image by Fenneker for this film exists, this particular version is previously unrecorded.
Estimate $2,000-3,000

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"Relics of the Weird," Colin Dickey with Morbid Anatomy, Word, Brooklyn, Saturday October 27

For those who live in the New York City area and have not already had too much of Morbid Anatomy this season: I would love to see you this Friday at "Relics of the Weird," a book event for Colin Dickey's wonderful Afterlives of the Saints, wherein he will read from the book, and we will show and discuss artifacts of Catholicism drawn from the Morbid Anatomy Library permanent collection.

Full details follow; hope to see you there!

Relics of the Weird
Colin Dickey and Morbid Anatomy
Saturday October 27, 2012
7:00 pm
Word Book Store (126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn)

Get your creep on early! Colin Dickey (Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty) and Brooklyn's own Morbid Anatomy will host a night in honor of some of the weirder relics in history, complete with slideshow and Halloween candy.

More here.

Image: "Incorruptible Saint" in Milan

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/relics-of-weird-colin-dickey-with.html

Care and Conservation of Early 19th Century Wax Anatomical Models

If you are interested in knowing more about anatomical waxes, you could do worse than to check out today's entry, "Waxing Lyrical," on The Science Museum's "Stories from the Stores" blog to read conservator Emily Yates' account of cleaning this circa 1818 Italian wax by by Francesco Calenzuoli for the wonderful looking exhibition Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men at the Museum of London, running until 14 April 2013. 

You can find out more about this particular piece by clicking here; click on images to see much larger, finer versions. Caption reads: This anatomical wax model shows the internal organs, the heart is entirely removable, made by Francesco Calenzuoli (1796-1821) ( Science Museum, London )

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/care-and-conservation-of-early-19th.html

Morbid Anatomy Library: One of the "7 Grossest Wonders of the USA," According to CNN

Thanks to good friend and genius writer Richard Faulk--author of the unfortunately named but no less wonderful Gross America--The Morbid Anatomy Library has just been awarded the dubious honor of being voted one of the top 7 "Grossest Wonders of the USA" on CNN.

You can read Mr. Faulk's entire list, and his entry on The Morbid Anatomy Library, by clicking here. You can find out more about the elegantly and eruditely written book--and even buy a copy of your own!--by clicking here.

To find out more about the library, click here; for those curious to see this "weird art and antique medicine cum gallery and lecture space [which] hosts occasional classes in anthropmorphic taxidermy," please stop by open hours this Sunday, 1-6. More on that here.

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/morbid-anatomy-library-one-of-7.html

Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), Loreto Prague, Through November 30th

Exciting exhibition alert; I am severely tempted to try to make it here before it closes...

ARS MORIENDI
Loreto Prague, Loretánské nám.7,  118 00 Praha 1 – Hrad?any
Exhibition extended until 30th November.

The aim of the exhibition is, above all, to introduce to the public the hitherto unknown space of the crypt for benefactors beneath the church of the Nativity of Our Lord. A fascinating discovery in the crypt revealed unique Baroque mural paintings depicting motifs of Death and Resurrection – allegories of Time, symbols of fragility and transience of human existence. These frescos of exceptional quality were created in 1664 by the means of the special technique of chiaroscuro – employing exclusively the shades of black and grey. The work of their author, perhaps a Capuchin order painter, was derived from the Flemish and Dutch prints and was commissioned by the then patroness of Loreto, Countess Elisabeth Apollonia of Kolowrat. The main scene depicting the Raising of Lazarus was based on the famous etching by Rembrandt, which later inspired numerous artists across the centuries, including Van Gogh – the Loreto fresco is remarkable because it is a very early reaction to Rembrandt’s work created while he was still alive...

... Part of the presentation will be dedicated to other interesting exhibits associated with the burial practices in Loreto – for example the unknown ground plan of the Lobkowicz crypt of patrons beneath Santa Casa, design of Castrum Doloris created in 1698 for the burial of the Count Václav Ferdinand of Lobkowicz, collection of the Baroque funerary textiles or several reliquary crosses which were part of the Loreto treasure and had not yet been exhibited.

The exhibition will also introduce the customs related to burying in the Capuchin order crypts. Borrowed for this occasion from the Brno crypt were Baroque coffin lids with painted decoration, portraits and coats of arms of selected donors who sought their final resting place with the Capuchins. The perception of the order spirituality of Franciscan observance in the funerary sphere is broadened by the presentation of two Baroque Franciscan convent mortuaries.

It rarely happens that an entirely unknown monument in the centre of Prague is discovered. The Loreto exhibition offers an opportunity to get more closely acquainted with the impressive crypt space decorated with unique paintings and with the Baroque ARS MORIENDI – The Art of Dying – the inner grasp of the end of human existence as a gate to eternal life.

You can find out more here. Thanks so much to Pam Grossman for letting me know about this!

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/ars-moriendi-art-of-dying-loreto-prague.html

Scientists track anatomy behind our smiles

London, Oct 18 (IANS) Both jaws and teeth are parts of the anatomy that help make a pretty smile, but their evolutionary origins have just been discovered, thanks to a particle accelerator and a long dead fish.

All living jawed vertebrates (animals with backbones, such as humans) have teeth, but it has long been thought that the first jawed vertebrates lacked pearly gnashers, instead capturing prey with gruesome scissor-like jaw-bones.

However, new research, led by the UK's University of Bristol, shows that these earliest jawed vertebrates possessed teeth too, indicating that teeth evolved along with, or soon after, the evolution of jaws, the journal Nature reports.

Palaeontologists from Bristol and the Natural History Museum and Curtin University, Australia, collaborated with physicists from Switzerland to study the jaws of a primitive jawed fish called Compagopiscis.

The international team studied fossils of Compagopiscis using high energy X-rays at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, revealing the structure and development of teeth and bones, according to a Bristol statement.

"We were able to visualise every tissue, cell and growth line within the bony jaws, allowing us to study the development of the jaws and teeth. We could then make comparisons with the embryology of living vertebrates, thus demonstrating that placoderms possessed teeth," Martin Ruecklin of Bristol said.

"This is solid evidence for the presence of teeth in these first jawed vertebrates and solves the debate on the origin of teeth," co-author Philip Donoghue, professor at Bristol's School of Earth Sciences said.

"These wonderfully preserved fossils from Australia yield many secrets of our evolutionary ancestry but research has been held back waiting for the kind of non-destructive technology that we used in this study," co-author Zerina Johanson from the Natural History Museum said.

"Without the collaborations between palaeontologists and physicists, our evolutionary history would remain hidden in the rocks," Johanson added.

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Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Is There Hope for Cristina and Owen?

Sandra Oh, Kevin McKidd

Sure, Mark Sloan and Lexie Grey died, and Arizona had her leg amputated. But what has been most painful for some Grey's Anatomy fans this season is the agonizing distance between Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen (Kevin McKidd).

After the plane crash, Cristina hightailed it out of Seattle, willing to deal with the harsh winter of Minnesota to get as far away from her old stomping grounds as possible. Does her move signal the end of C/O as we know it? "I think they really are destined to be together," McKidd tells TVGuide.com.

Grey's Anatomy Sneak Peeks: April's back! Cristina's miserable!

Let's all take a moment to exhale. Below, McKidd dishes on what's in store for the troubled lovers this season, including Owen's big move. Plus: What are the repercussions of the plane crash? Get the scoop:

What can you tell us about Cristina and Owen's journey this year? Kevin McKidd: It's hard to see just how they're going to fix things. They're pretty damaged and there have been wrongs done on both sides. They're both pretty strong-willed people, they love each other and they've got this deep connection that's undeniable. In the first couple of episodes, you don't really see them make much headway. Owen's trying to reach out to Cristina and she's not really able or willing to receive much from Owen yet. There's still that distance between them that hopefully will break down as they move forward. They're very much as separate as they've ever been even though they're married.

But is there hope for them? McKidd: I think there's hope. I just hope they can make it because I think they're a cool couple and I think they really are destined to be together, but how they do that is hard to tell at the moment. I think it's going to be Owen striving to win her back, but it's going to take a while.

With all the death and damage from the plane crash, Owen seems to be handling being in charge well. McKidd: The good thing about Owen this year is he's rising to the occasion. Even though this is maybe the toughest year at Seattle Grace with all this loss going on, he's doing a good job. He's not a shoulder to cry on or touchy-feely, but he knows what people need.

He also needs his own safety valve. I think he realizes, in the episode that I'm directing, through speaking to Callie [Sara Ramirez] and going through his own process, that he needs to simplify his life. Things are so complex here. So, he decides that he's moving out of the firehouse and he's going to ask Derek [Patrick Dempsey] if he can stay in the woods in the trailer. It seems like the natural place for Owen to regress to when things are really bad. He goes to the ultimate man cave and just really downsizes his life and just lives out in the woods and runs the hospital. He's in a bit of a holding pattern, in a way. He's waiting to see where Cristina is, he's feeling very helpless and very out of control and all that stuff, so that's how he's coping with it.

Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Jessica Capshaw discusses Arizona's fate and what's next

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Grey's Anatomy Scoop: Is There Hope for Cristina and Owen?

Anatomy of a Debate Fight: The Energy Question

There were a couple exciting moments in the presidential debate last night when President Obama and Mitt Romney revealed they do not like each other very much. One of those was on the not-typically-emotionally-charged issue of energy permits. Relive it in our GIF anatomy of the fight.

Setup:

Romney responds to a question about gas prices by saying that Obama hasn't pursued an energy policy that would drive prices down. Obama responds that he's encouraged growth in all energy sectors, both clean and dirty, and that that will create jobs. "That's the strategy you need, an all-of-the-above strategy, and that's what we're going to do in the next four years."

Step 1: The provocation.

Romney cuts in. "But that's not what you've done in the last four years. That's the problem.In the last four years, you've cut permits and licences on federal lands and federal waters in half."

"Not true Governor Romney."

Step 2: The personal space invasion.

The start walking and talking over each over.

Romney: "So how much did you cut licenses?"

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UCSF anatomy center's high-tech upgrade

For the new Anatomy Learning Center at UCSF's Parnassus campus, school officials sought to integrate high-tech tools with the classic cadaveric dissection.

The result: Instead of paper manuals, each lab table has an iPad uploaded with the manual, interactive graphics and quizzes. Faculty use mobile cameras to beam images of a cadaver wirelessly to TV screens and the iPads throughout the room. And students can watch surgeries taking place somewhere else on campus.

"It's about making the lab extend beyond the walls," said Chandler Mayfield, director of technology-enhanced learning in the university's School of Medicine.

The university and designers consulted with students and faculty for months to find out what they wanted to see in the $7.5 million learning center, which opened in August and was paid for with public and private funding. In addition to the lab, it includes offices, a classroom with wireless video capabilities, and a memorial wall where students can commemorate those who donated their bodies for their education.

The university shut down the old anatomy lab in September 2010 because its ventilation system was so outdated that chemical levels got too high. For the past two years, while the new center was being designed and built, students and faculty had to make do sharing the School of Dentistry's lab.

The old lab was a relic of the 1950s. The tables were made mostly of wood and were too tall for many students. The lights provided uneven lighting for students dissecting cadavers. And the circulation problems left the smelly embalming chemicals hanging in the air.

"Your hair would reek, your clothes would reek," said anatomy Professor Kimberly Topp. "You would get into the elevator, and everyone knew where you had been."

The new 3,500-square-foot lab is in the same place as the old lab on the medical school's 13th floor. Wall-to-wall windows look out onto Golden Gate Park and into Marin. It feels light and spacious, despite the 30 exam tables with four students buzzing around each.

Six 72-inch TV screens line the wall opposite the windows, and whiteboards with handwritten lists of muscles, bones and ligaments cover much of the remaining wall space. The ceiling is dotted with wireless routers, retractable extension cords and surgical lights that students can maneuver over their cadavers.

Architect Malvin Whang of the firm Harley Ellis Devereaux said he tried to create a warm and inviting space where students would want to study and that also met the functional needs of an anatomy lab.

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Why Emily Owens, M.D. Is Grey's Anatomy 2.0

Mamie Gummer, Ellen Pompeo

From the moment Emily Owens, M.D. begins, one thought will surely cross your mind: This feels very familiar.

That's because The CW's new medical dramedy is pretty similar to ABC's stalwart Grey's Anatomy from the titular protagonists' names to the voiceovers and even the characters, the tone of Shonda Rhimes' medical drama is present.

Emily Owens stars Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife, Off the Map) as a first-year intern who, while working alongside her best friend/crush (Justin Hartley) and her childhood nemesis (Aja Naomi King), must learn the hard way that hospitals are a lot like high school.

VIDEO: Watch the premiere of The CW's Emily Owens, M.D. online now!

"I think that every medical show now is going to be compared to Grey's," Gummer tells TVGuide.com. "I did a show called Off the Map and it was set in a jungle and everyone was comparing it to Grey's. It's sort of inevitable. Grey's has gotten a little gray. It has more somber notes generally than we do, but Grey's is a great show and it's been running forever, so obviously they're doing something right."

What they're doing right is exactly what Emily creator Jennie Snyder Urman probably hopes to capitalize on considering archetypes from the Shondaland flasgship series can be found in the CW show. Let's take a look at the characters to see how similar they really are:

Emily Owens (Mamie Gummer) is Meredith Grey: Both docs came to their respective hospitals wide-eyed and hoping to make a difference, but where Mer went dark and twisty, Emily is still hoping to hang on to her bright and shiny side, which offers a lot of awkward comedy as she navigates the waters of residency. "She's generally awkward," Gummer says. "She's lacking in social graces, but she's very well-intentioned. She's smarter and has more depth than she's given credit for or that she's aware of. She's a kind of geeky character." And although both characters use voiceover narration, expect more from Emily than what you're used to from Grey's.

Will Rider (Justin Hartley) is Derek Shepherd: Like Derek was to Meredith, this is ultimately the heartthrob that you and Emily will be rooting for her to end up with. No random one-night stands here, though, as the duo went to medical school together and she's been harboring a longtime crush on her pal. "You learn that they have a real friendship founded on a lot of shared experience and true affection," Gummer says. "It's not just a girlish crush that she has." And just like Grey's dragged out the will-they-won't-they tension for MerDer, so too will Emily as Gummer says they're still working through that in episodes they're currently filming.

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Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory, Open Studios, Next Weekend, October 13-14, 12-6


Next weekend, October 13th and 14th, please join the Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory as we join dozens of other Gowanus-based galleries and artist studios in opening our spaces to the public for the Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, or "A.G.A.S.T."

So stop by to say hello, peruse the stacks, take a gander at the skeleton, join us in a glass of cheap red wine, and take in some "spirit art!"

Following are the full details: Hope very much to see you there.

Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (A.G.A.S.T.)
Saturday October 13th and Sunday October 14th 12-6
543 Union Street at Nevins, Brooklyn
Free and Open to the Public

Directions: Enter the Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory via Proteus Gowanus Gallery

R or M train to Union Street in Brooklyn: Walk two long blocks on Union (towards the Gowanus Canal) to Nevins Street. 543 Union Street is the large red brick building on right. Go right on Nevins and left down alley through large black gates. Gallery is the second door on the left.

F or G train to Carroll Street: Walk one block to Union. Turn right, walk two long blocks on Union towards the Gowanus Canal, cross the bridge, take left on Nevins, go down the alley to the second door on the left.

You can find out more information about A.G.A.S.T., and get a full list of participants, by clicking here. You can find out more about Observatory and the exhibition now on view by clicking here.

Photo of The Morbid Anatomy Library by Shannon Taggart.

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Santa Muerte, San la Muerte and The Fascinating History of Death Personified in Latin America

I took the photos you see above over a series of trips to Los Angeles to document the fascinating phenomonon of Santa Muerte, a sacred figure worshipped as part of the larger pantheon of Catholic saints in Mexico and now also, with the wave of Mexican migrants, in the United States as well. Thought to have its roots in a syncretism of the beliefs of the native Latin Americans and the colonizing Spanish Catholics, the name literally means "Holy Death" or "Saint Death," and she--also fondly referred to as "The Skinny Lady--tends to be worshipped by disenfranchised members of society such as criminals, prostitutes, transvestites, the very poor, and other people for whom conventional Catholicism has not provided a better or safer life.

Doing some research into the matter, I recently stumbled upon Frank Graziano's Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America, which offers fascinating insight into the genesis of both Santa Muerte and the very similar San La Muerte tradition, which developed independently from a similar native/Catholic syncretism in other areas of Latin America; I also would give anything to see one of the bizarre theatrical productions described below:

In the Jesuit missions, the publication of many books included, in 1705, a translation of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg's De la Diferencia Entre lo Temporal y Eterno. Among the engravings in the book was one of a triumphant personified death, holding a sickle (a variation on the scythe) in one and and an hourglass in the other. Death as a skeleton also appears in another image, which was likewise copied from a European original. 

These engravings document the presence of the Grim Reaper in the missions, but more important in folk culture were theatrical productions staged by the Jesuits for the Guaranís' religious instruction. The performances often included Christ's resurrection, with props of skulls and bones and with the Grim Reaper in the supporting cast for dramatization of Christ's triumph over death. Such performances contributed to fixing the personified image of death within a religious context. 

Almost all the artists in Jesuit missions were Guaranís who were trained by Europeans. These indigenous carvers of saints thought of their work more religiously than artistically: "Image-makers quite literally believed that they were making saints and gods." This observation is particularly suggestive in the context of San La Muerte, whose traditionalal carvers were likewise creating, not representing, a supernatural power. For the Guaraní mission artists, "The reality of things was not expressed by imitating their visual appearance, as in European art, but by capturing their essence." The imagery, including the image of death personified, was adopted from European traditions and then invested with this "essence." The carvings transcend mere representation and become empowered in themselves like amulets.

All of this also brings to mind the wonderful 18th century book La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte (The Astounding Life of Death); more on that here.

All photos you see above are from my trips to Los Angeles to document the Santa Muerta phenomenon; for more, click here to see my complete Flickr set.

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http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/10/santa-muerte-and-history-of-death.html

'World-first' tool to teach anatomy to Coventry students up for award

A TOOL to teach anatomy to students in Coventry has been shortlisted for a national award.

It features 3D images of the collection of preserved body parts at University Hospital.

That means medical students who are too busy to study the specimens up close can access rotating images of them on their smartphone at any time.

The project developed by University Hospital and the University of Warwick is a world first and has been nominated for the Times Higher Education Awards.

Clinical anatomist Professor Peter Abrahams said: At long last our students can study anatomy on the move, and it gives me a real pride to see them in coffee breaks, on the beach and even sitting in an airport lounge studying detailed real human anatomy in moving 3D from their smart phones.

I wish Id had technology like this as a student.

University Hospital has an extensive collection of plastinated body parts that have been preserved by injecting them with plastic. Bosses hope to make the entire catalogue available as 3D images.

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'Grey's Anatomy': Watch April's Awkward Return to Seattle Grace (Videos)

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'Grey's Anatomy's' Sarah Drew

Let the awkward moments begin on ABC's Grey's Anatomy.

In three new clips from Thursday's episode, titled "Love the One You're With," April (Sarah Drew) makes her triumphant return to Seattle Grace after Owen (Kevin McKidd) asked her to return to her former position.

VIDEO: 'Grey's Anatomy' Season 9 Trailer: Sex, Marriage and Arizona's Road to Recovery

Turns out, the lovely Dr. Hunt didn't tell anyone that she'd be returning -- as an attending, no less! -- including Jackson (Jesse Williams). Even better: the chief of surgery also didn't mention to April that Jackson opted to pass on taking the gig in Tulane and that the guy with whom she had a boards-inspired fling was still scrubbing in at Seattle Grace.

Elsewhere, Cristina (Sandra Oh) begins to make new friends in Minnesota -- with Dr. Parker (Desperate Housewives' Steven Culp) -- as the shop talk turns potentially flirtatious.

STORY: 'Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw on Arizona's Heartbreaking Loss and What's Next

Speaking of flirting, Alex (Justin Chambers) has new intern Jo (Camilla Luddington) assigned to his service and begins to make a move on the chick with the guy's name. Callie (Sara Ramirez), however, has other ideas about the potential pairing and doesn't hold back with what so far has been the funniest line of the medical drama's dark and twisty ninth season.

STORY: 'Grey's Anatomy' Adds Neve Campbell as Derek's Sister

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Research and Markets: Anatomy of the Horse, 6th edition

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5m7lcm/anatomy_of_the) has announced the addition of the "Anatomy of the Horse, 6th edition" report to their offering.

The sixth edition of this highly successful book contains updates to functional anatomy which has now been totally revised. There are also new chapters on the eye, abdomen, female reproduction, ultrasonography and orthopaedics. The atlas is superbly illustrated throughout with colour drawings, photographs, and radiographs providing the reader with detailed information on the structure, function, and clinical application of all equine body systems and their interaction in the live animal.

Already acknowledged by students and teachers as an essential resource for learning and revision, the sixth edition is a valuable reference for veterinary practitioners and for those who own and work with horses.

Published by Schluetersche, Germany and distributed by Manson Publishing.

Key Features:

- Fully illustrated with colour drawings based on new dissections plus osteology photographs and radiographs

- Includes topographic anatomy of the entire body; detailed information in tabular form on muscles, lymph nodes, and peripheral nerves; and clinical and functional aspects of selected structures

Reviews:

... The aim of the authors has been admirably achieved. The textbook is already acknowledged as an essential resource for students, teachers and for veterinary practitioners and horse lovers in the English-speaking world.

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