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Cadaver Lab — Dalla Pelle al Cuore
A journey through Human Anatomy, towards the discovery of what the skin hides and the heart keeps.
It is neither an atlas nor a clinical handbook. It is a pocket handbook, a reasoned path through the systems of the human body, built to give back what the fragmentation of textbooks tends to lose: an integrated view. The continuity between layer and layer, between system and system - from the skin surface to the structure that never stops.
From Skin to Heart
A journey through Human Anatomy, towards the discovery of what the skin hides and the heart keeps.
Dalla Pelle al Cuore è un testo di anatomia sistemica firmato da Ferdinando Paternostro, Anatomista, Docente Universitario, Autore e Ricercatore, e da Giacomo Catalani.
Pathway
The Anatomical Path
The text proceeds in stages, following the same logic with which a body is crossed in dissection: from the outside in.
- The integumentary system: the skin as boundary and first interface for reading the body.
- Fascial system: connective continuity, a central hub for manual therapy and movement analysis.
- Muscular system: generating and transmitting force.
- Skeletal system: levers, loads, the architecture of movement.
- Nervous system: control, integration, the networks that govern everything.
- Cardiovascular system: the distribution network, the "rivers" of the body.
- The heart: the myocardium, the terminal structure and convergence of the path.
Chapters
From Skin to Heart
A journey through Human Anatomy, towards the discovery of what the skin hides and the heart keeps.
This book was born from the meeting of two worlds that too often remain separate: science and wonder. On one side the rigour of Anatomy - the precision of the scalpel, the patience of dissection. On the other the amazement of those who, opening a human body, find the universe in it.
Who it is for
Written for physicians and health and therapy specialists. From Skin to Heart is written for those who have already chosen to make the body their profession or vocation. It is neither a school textbook nor a superficial popular book. It is a journey that starts from the skin - our outermost and most intelligent boundary - and reaches the heart, understood both as a muscular organ and as the symbolic and functional centre of life.
An accessible and in-depth text
- Readable without rigid prerequisites: those who are studying will find clear concepts, powerful mental images and fluent language.
- Stimulating for those who already know: the experienced professional will discover new connections, refined clinical insights and an integrated view that goes beyond a single discipline.
From Skin to Heart is not just an anatomy and physiology book: it is a short, intense reflection on the discovery of life through the study of the organism, by those who live the laboratory and anatomical dissection. Because every time we better understand a mechanism - be it fascial glide, respiratory mechanics, cardiac regulation or neuroception - we are really understanding something bigger: how we are made to be in the world, to move, to heal, to relate.
Reflection
From Text to Dissection: the Cadaver Lab
Medicine, in all its ancient and modern forms, is and remains the study of anatomy.
This handbook builds a conceptual framework; the laboratory turns it into direct experience on real anatomical specimens. 5,000 years ago as today, the human body is the key. Those who truly understand how we are made, how we move, how we breathe, how connective tissue dialogues with the nervous system, with the heart and with every cell, have a deeper clinical and human eye. This book helps you rediscover anatomy not as a list of names and structures to memorise, but as a living experience. A physiology that speaks, telling its story through often overlooked connections: from fascia to posture, from touch to emotional regulation, from the mechanics of movement to the wonder of autonomic regulation.
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Contents
- The Skin: The Boundary between Us and the World
- The First Encounter
- Anatomy of the skin
- The skin as a sense organ
- Reflection: The boundary as identity
- The Fascia: The Invisible Network
- Beyond the surface
- Anatomy of the fascia
- The fascia as a sense organ
- Reflection: Connection as a principle
- The Muscles: The Architecture of Movement
- The machine that moves
- Fibre types and adaptation
- Deep muscles and posture
- Reflection: The body as action
- The Bones: The Scaffolding of Life
- The skeleton: much more than scaffolding
- Bone remodelling
- The joints: where bones meet
- Reflection: solidity that renews itself
- The Nervous System: The Brain and its Messages
- The network that thinks
- The brain: Anatomy of the mind
- The autonomic nervous system: the autopilot
- Reflection: are we our brain?
- The Vessels: Rivers of Life
- The circulatory system: an endless river
- Arteries, veins and capillaries
- The lymphatic system, the great forgotten one
- Reflection: flow as a metaphor
- The Internal Organs: The Hidden World
- Inside the thorax and abdomen
- The second brain: the gut
- Reflection: invisible life
- The organ that never stops
- Cardiac automaticity
- The myocardium: a special muscle
- Reflection: the heart between science and symbol
- The Cadaver Lab: Touching Wonder
- Why the Cadaver Lab
- What happens in the Cadaver Lab
- The experience that changes your perspective
- Epilogue: From Science to Life
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A journey through Human Anatomy, towards the discovery of what the skin hides and the heart keeps.
Features
- Pages
- 124
- Chapters
- 8
- Exclusive Images
- 30
FAQ
Is it an atlas or a clinical handbook?
No. It is a pocket handbook with a scientific-popular approach. It provides an overall view to understand the concept before the rules. To find the key to reading and the meaning of the study of human anatomy.
How does it relate to the Cadaver Lab?
It is a volume of the Cadaver Lab Series: it analyses and conceptually prepares for the dissection experience on real specimens.
Is the book Cadaver Lab - From Skin to Heart available in digital format?
The book Cadaver Lab - From Skin to Heart is available only in print.
Who are the authors of the book Cadaver Lab - From Skin to Heart?
The authors of the book Cadaver Lab - From Skin to Heart are Giacomo Catalani and Ferdinando Paternostro.
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