Most of these diagrams are modified from copyright-free drawings in The Sourcebook of Medical Illustration, edited by Peter Cull (Park Ridge, NJ: Parthenon, 1989).

Need a different approach? How about learning anatomy by coloring pictures? If that sounds too tame try learning anatomy by reading mystery stories.

If you really like anatomy here are 3 books that you will enjoy:

• Ernest Lachman & Kenneth K. Faulkner. Case Studies in Anatomy, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 1981. Discusses interesting, medically oriented anatomical problems.
• Albert Howard Carter III. First Cut: a Season in the Human Anatomy Lab. NY: Picador, 1997. Carter is a journalist who spent a semester in a medical school anatomy lab, observing students working on cadavers. His own father had donated his body to a medical school, and he was trying to find out if he had made the right decision.
• Roy A. Meals. One Hundred Orthopaedic Conditions Every Doctor Should Understand. St. Louis, MO: Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., 1992. These are medical case histories, mostly told as stories. A wide range of anatomical topics is covered.