“A warmly engaging, cheerful and utterly winning book... as engrossing as any novel, as thoughtful as the most searching memoir, as suggestive as any contemporary scientific essay.” —Fred Chappell, The Raleigh News & Observer

“Carter provides insight into a critical aspect of medical training, and an unusually intimate, even arresting, view of the bodies we have and the bodies we will become.” —Publishers Weekly

“[A] compelling book...The author treats all parties, living and dead, with honesty, respect, and kindness throughout.” —The Bloomsbury Review