When emGray's Anatomyem appeared in 1858, the book rapidly became not just a bestseller, but the standard work. Indeed, emGray's Anatomyem is the only textbook of human anatomy continuously in print for the last 150 years. emThe Making of Gray's Anatomyem tells the fascinating story of this remarkable book. Providing a wealth of historical context, Ruth Richardson examines both the mid-Victorian medical world in which Henry Gray and the brilliant illustrator Henry Vandyke Carter operated and the vigorous publishing industry in London at that time. Along the way, Richardson explores the scientific and cultural life of the medical school dissecting room and dead house, as well as the lives of those whose corpses ended up on the slab. The very different personalities and life-stories of Gray and Carter emerge in the telling, as do those of their publishers, and the many other individuals who were involved in the making of the book itself. Indeed, emThe Making of Gray's Anatomyem investiga