McMinn's Interactive Clinical Anatomy; Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy; Anatomy of Nerves and Muscles

doi:10.1056/NEJM199707243370424

Volume 337:286-287		July 24, 1997		Number 4

McMinn's Interactive Clinical Anatomy
Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy
Anatomy of Nerves and Muscles

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CD-ROM. By Peter H. Abrahams. System needed: Multimedia IBM PC or compatible computer, with 8 MB RAM. St. Louis, Mosby, 1997. $59.95 (MAC or Windows). ISBN 0-7234-2253-2 (MAC); 0-7234-2186-2 (Windows).
CD-ROM (Version 2.0). By Jamie Weir and Peter H. Abrahams. System needed: Multimedia IBM PC or compatible computer, with at least 8 MB RAM. (Also available for Macintosh System 7.0 or higher, with at least 4 MB RAM.) St. Louis, Mosby, 1997. $59.95. ISBN 0-7234-2631-7.
CD-ROM. By Jean-Marie Peyronnard and Louise Charron. System needed: Multimedia IBM PC or compatible computer, with at least 16 MB RAM. (Also available for Macintosh System 7.0 or higher, with at least 16 MB RAM.) Montreal, SSB Multimedia, 1996. $225. No ISBN.

Students of anatomy will enjoy McMinn's Interactive ClinicalAnatomy. This software transforms McMinn's color Atlas of HumanAnatomy into a CD-ROM with added features. The illustrationsare taken from the dissection of a human body in the anatomyroom and are quite different from images of the living body.This is clearly an advantage for students in an anatomy coursewho work with cadavers. Added to this book's 200 dissectionsare short explanatory paragraphs that give information on thevarious anatomical details of the specific illustration. Wheneverpossible, the text becomes hypertext, and clicking on a specificilluminated concept brings . . . [Full Text of this Article]