It was the need of time. With the reduction of 1st Professional MBBS curriculum in basic sciences to one year, students could hardly afford `Dissection Manual` and `Gross Anatomy` as separate textbooks.
The idea behind the present contribution was to combine the two and present the text and dissection procedures in the same volume in a lucid manner. The unique feature of this book is its diagrams, which have been independently drawn by author himself to minimize the factual inaccuracies. Coloured line diagrams have been included to provide support to the textual description. Relevant applied anatomy at the end of each chapter has further strengthened the book.
Dr. Nafis Ahmad Faruqi did his MBBS (1976) and MS in Anatomy (1981) from J.N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has been teaching anatomy since 1979; he was promoted as Professor in 2003. Neuroanatomy and morphometry are his special areas of research. He has produced about a dozen papers in neuroanatomy and half a dozen in morphometric studies which have been published both in national and international journals. He has supervised and co-supervised many postgraduate candidates in anatomy and other medical subjects and participated in several conferences and research courses. Owing to his exceptionally bright academic career, he was offered membership of New York Academy of Sciences in 1997. He has also to his credit about half a dozen books during his almost 32 years of teaching career.
