When I saw the subtitle "Doctors, Vampires, and Dissection" I was immediately interested. With my father being a mortician, I have always had a morbid obsession with death and anatomy. The idea of a female anatomical figure being more detailed than a male is kind of strange to me. I understand the metaphor of removing the pieces of the sculpture to removing clothes. The book describes it as a "women revealing her sexuality." Today in text books, the figures are almost always male. Perhaps this is because the female body is not modestly dressed as during the 19th century. Also, during that time, the majority of doctors studying anatomy were male. Now, there are both females and males, so why are the diagrams today not represented more equally?