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"Human Anatomy is a part, not merely of medical science, but also, beyond that, of biological knowledge, and beyond that also a part of the totality of mankind's understanding of his universe. But it has been customarily isolated, and usually still is in many schools and texts... it is stultifying to confine enquiry or description to the artificially bounded 'subjects' of 'education'. Anatomy has been a particular sufferer in this compartmentalisation... There are, in fact, no real boundaries between 'anatomy' and all other fields of human enquiry..."

"...the human individual has not only applied himself to the creation of innumerable skills and crafts for mere survival, but has, in the unceasing development of mind, evolved the arts - painting, literature, poetry, music, sculpture and drama - to enrich our culture."

"Human Anatomy is, therefore, a crucial feature of mankind's unending study of man, which embraces the arts, sciences, mathematics, politics, religions, ergonomics and environmental manipulation - all percepts of human cerebration."

Gray's Anatomy, 1989


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Raoul Tubiana: "Examination of the Hand and Upper Limb": W.B.Saunders: ISBN 0-7216-1056-0
Based on Dr Tubiana's four volume set, "The Hand"
Dr Tubiana is Director of the Hand Institute in Paris, and is former President of the International Societies of Surgery of the Hand
John Napier (revised by Russell H. Tuttle): "Hands": Princeton University Press: ISBN 0-691-02547-9
Wide ranging and very readable, with fascinating insights, esp. in comparative anatomy
John Napier was a physician specializing in hands - also a writer on primates and evolution
Gray's Anatomy: Churchill Livingstone: ISBN 0-443-04560-7
Comfortingly authoritative, extensive and beautifully illustrated - if expensive
Ian Winspur & Christopher B Wynn Parry: "The Musician's Hand - A Clinical Guide": Martin Dunitz: ISBN 1-85317-492-0
This is an extremely useful book by two of the leading figures in musicians' health
It is aimed equally at musicians, surgeons and physiotherapists
Otto Ortmann: "The Physiological Mechanics of Piano Technique" (1930): Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd (London); E.P.Dutton & Co (New York) - Now out of print
Solid gold. If you can find a copy, don't exchange it for anything

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