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Human Body

"Human Body" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The human being as a non-anatomical and non-zoological entity. The emphasis is on the philosophical or artistic treatment of the human being, and includes lay and social attitudes toward the body in history. (From J. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Human Body" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Human Body" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2016 and 2017
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.