Cultural References
The American medical drama Grey's Anatomy takes its name from the title of this book. The 1996 Steven Soderbergh film Gray's Anatomy, featuring monologuist Spalding Gray, also takes its name from the title of the book, as does Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings, a 2009 book by British political philosopher John N. Gray.
In Ian McEwan's Atonement, the work is studied by the character Robbie Turner.
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the book that Tom catches Becky Thatcher looking at, and which she tears a page of, is implied to be Gray's Anatomy.
In John Irving's 1985 novel The Cider House Rules, Dr. Larch orders his apprentice gynecologist Homer Welles to read Gray's Anatomy.
In Abraham Verghese's novel Cutting for Stone, Shiva reads it.
Alasdair Gray uses pictures of the first edition of Gray's Anatomy as illustrations in his 1992 novel, Poor Things.
Gray's Anatomy makes a brief appearance in the 1991 film, The Addams Family. Granny is seen to make new recipes by combining Gray's Anatomy with "normal" cookbooks.
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