Top 10 Anatomy Related Gifts to Give this Holiday Season
Having trouble trying to find gift ideas to that friend, family member, or co-worker who loves anatomy? Well me too. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of unique anatomy related gifts, some of which I’ve featured on Street Anatomy before. Click on each link below to learn more and order. Enjoy!
i Heart Guts has a great collection of plush toys, t-shirts, buttons, stickers, and tote bags all featuring individual organs. T-shirts have cheeky slogans like “Smells Like Spleen Spirit” “When Urine Love” and “Gimme Some Sugar” (featuring a pancreas). They even have t-shirts for babies! Fun stuff and decent prices.
2. The Complete Manual of Things that Might Kill You
A perfect gift for that hypochondriac friend or patient we all know and love. Give them this book and they’ll never have a reason to come to you and complain. Just tell them to look it up in the Complete Manual of Things that Might Kill You! Only $19.95.
3. Body Bags
Heavy cotton weave and leather purses with magnetic clasp, featuring images of internal organs. Uterus, heart, kidneys, or lungs.
It’s couture anatomy. Priced at $90.
The Anatomica collection features old anatomical drawings and woodcuts of a variety of organs and body parts. Currently part of the collection are a Heart a Brain, a Skull, a Cochlea, a Molar, and a Ribcage.
Anatomical paraphernalia from $17 – $25
This is one of the three anatomy related t-shirts on the famous Threadless.com, a community based t-shirt company featuring t-shirts submitted by illustrators and designers. This shirt was designed by Craig Brickles and is priced at $15 for the men and $17 for the ladies.
Here’s another one of the anatomy related t-shirts on Threadless.com. X marks the spot on this pirate map of the organs by Noor Azman Mohd Zain. Priced at $15 for the men and $17 for the ladies.
And finally, the last of the anatomy related t-shirts on Threadless.com. Priced at $15 for the men and $17 for the ladies. By Michael Temim.
8. Anatomically Correct Chocolates
Chocolat d’ Anatomie is a delightful line of anatomically correct chocolates. Chocolat d’ Anatomie is hand molded using only the finest quality creamy milk chocolate, rich dark chocolate and tantalizingly delicate white chocolate. Each piece is individually designed to be anatomically correct yet fun and unique.
Especially good for us chocolate lovers! Gift boxes are priced at $8.65
These pieces make lovely gifts for doctors, surgeons, nurses, medical students-or anyone who is interested in very unique, finely crafted jewelry.
Very unique! Designed by medical artist Beth Croce. Priced at $90.
10. Damien Hirst’s Diamond Skull
For those that enjoy the finer things in life…and a little bling. Priced at a mere $100 million.
This is an awesome list. Thanks for compiling it. I have a couple more to add for the microbiology lovers out there:
http://www.pixelrn.com/2007/11/page/4
Ooo! Thanks for including the book!
Also – don’t forget http://www.giantmicrobes.com
Not QUITE anatomy, I know.
Great list!
Skeletor will be by in a day or so to collect that skull for his lair.
Don’t forget the “Gross Anatomy” line of squishy organ toys. These have been a great favorite around our house. Fun for all ages. We particularly enjoy throwing them against a window and watching their slow-motion gooey tumble down the glass.
I like the last set of cufflinks, but I’m afraid I might lose one. After all, what use is half a pair of eye-shaped cufflinks?
So, whose skull is it? Can the family buy it back?
If I may suggest, my website is fully of anatomy themed goodness. Perfect for those on a bit of a budget, too! I am actually in the process of updating it with many new items this weekend. Please do check it out, http://poeia.net , thanks!
autumn
Vanessa,
Thanks for collecting this terrific info, and sharing it with the rest of us on the AMI listserver. VERY COOL gifts!
Also, I very much enjoyed browsing your site!!!
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On my new blog I wrote a post (http://www.cellwise.net/2007/10/international-museum-of-surgical.html)
about the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago (have you been? it’s pretty cool), and came across their online store (https://www.icsglobal.org/shop/). They have lots of human anatomy-related gifts. I can’t link to all of them here, but in my post (towards the middle), I mentioned and link to the “magic thinking cap”, “Little Joe Torso”, “anatomical key rings”, a “lumbar vertebra mug”, a “glow-in-the-dark finger bone pen”, and “bone or muscle socks”, mostly because I found them amusing. Oh, I just remembered about the anatomical Jell-O molds (https://www.icsglobal.org/shop/category?id=6).
There are lots and lots more!
I’m also a grad student at UIC, and I just recently started a blog, CELL*WISE. I think Street Anatomy is really cool. Thanks!
I can’t help feeling the diamond skull would have been more interesting if it was more educational – eg colour in different areas of brain with different precious stones, or mark out the phrenology “bumps” or something like that.
Oh Oh this gem as well : http://www.brickartist.com/sweet_heart.html
Check them out for the most amazing morbid gifts. This place was founded by a woman facing advanced breast cancer who wanted to die laughing. Lots of cool stuff like chocolate body parts, Day of the Dead goodies, T shirts, DVDs, Books. They are even producing their own embalming DVD this year. They also donate 25% of their profit to breast cancer research.
http://bluelips.com
Does anyone know where I can obtain a pin or necklace that is an image of a larynx
I am looking for a necklace or pin that depicts a larynx.
Anyone have an idea wahere I can find it?
Hey Rhonda – would something like this work?
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=6872367
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=28100
I have several colors and could make them into a necklace, just let me know!
autumn
autumn@poeia.net
http://poeia.net
This was hilarious last year. Can you post a new one for the 2008 holiday season? I actually broke down and got some of the holiday chocolates when my son was born, the baby show favors cracked up my buddies when I came back to work. I just wish they made chocolate eyes….Great posts and keep them up.
Breitling ‚Äì I will definitely do another “top 10 anatomy related gifts” post for this holiday season! I’m already collecting a list of great anatomical finds. Glad you enjoyed the first list.
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I love this blog post. It’s amazing! In fact, it was only a few hours ago that I was reading Don Thompson’s book on the 12M $ stuffed shark – the curious economics of contemporary art. I learnt from it that it’s real teeth used in Damian Hirst’s skull piece.
I had the opportunity to view this piece of work at the Art Dubai 2011 as well – as it was a revolving piece, I found it quite hard to photograph it.
Well done. Love your work.