Meehan Crist

Meehan Crist

Meehan Crist is writer-in-residence in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was editor-at-large at Nautilus and reviews editor at The Believer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Nation, Scientific American, and Science, among other publications.

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Anatomy of the heart; And she had a heart!; Autopsy, by Enrique Simonet, 1890.
Essay Medicine

Dissection

Meehan Crist

Medical students are forced to change their perceptions of the dead. There is a human instinct that must be overcome to... More

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