Richard Snell's Clinical anatomy for medical students is a successful clinically oriented text that contains essential facts and explanations without excessive detail. His parallel neuroanatomical text has similar aims.

Each chapter begins with chapter objectives; these are actually a brief explanation of broad aims for learning rather than specific educational objectives. There follow the main anatomical information of the chapter. New terms are printed in bold text, a style that is less than effective as attention is drawn to these rather than to key points of understanding. Next comes an extensive section of clinical notes that constitute the greatest strength of the book. They make clear the ways in which anatomical knowledge underpins …