Table Of ContentTHE AUTHORS
Robert H. Whitaker MD, MChir, FRCS graduated from the University of Cambridge and
trained at University College Hospital, London. He spent a year at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, in the Urological Research Laboratories before returning to continue his training
first at the St Peters Hospital group in London then as a Senior Lecturer in Urology at the
London Hospital Medical School. He was appointed as a Consultant Urologist at
Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in 1973 and spent 20 years practising mostly
paediatric urology before retiring from clinical practice to join the Department of Anatomy
in Cambridge to help with the teaching of students and trainee surgeons.
Neil R. Borley MB, BS, FRCS trained at Guy's Hospital, London and after performing house
jobs in medicine and surgery there he embarked upon a career in surgery. He undertook a
surgical rotation at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, before becoming a Demonstrator
in the Department of Anatomy in Cambridge under Professor Harold Ellis. He passed the
Primary FRCS examination in 1993 for which he received the Hallet Prize and then continued
his surgical training at Papworth Hospital and Kent and Canterbury Hospital. After moving
to Oxford as Surgical Registrar, he is now Clinical Lecturer in Surgery and Clinical Tutor in
the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford.
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INSTANT ANATOMY
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Robert H. Whitaker
MD, MChir, FRCS
Department of Anatomy
University of Cambridge
Neil R. BorZey
MB, BS, FRCS, FRCS (ed)
Nuffield Department of Surgery
University of Oxford
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First published 1994
Second edition 2000
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Whitaker, R. H. (Robert H.)
Instant anatomy1Robert H. Whitaker,
Neil R. Bor1ey.-2nd ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-632-05403-4
1. Human anatomy
Outlines, syllabi, etc.
I. Borley, Neil R.
11. Title.
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61 1-dc21 99-39812
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