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'A commendable feature of the collection’s exploration is the bringing together of contributions from historians, anthropologists, artists and curators, educators, surgeons and pathologists. In doing so, the collection offers interdisciplinary investigations and equips the reader with a thoughtful and critical understanding of educative technologies. [...] Overall, the collection is meticulously researched and well-written. It is a rewarding book as it is creative and experimental in its approach, and engages with new and familiar topics from interdisciplinary perspectives. The collection will certainly be a key text in inviting and guiding researchers to study the material culture of medicine’s objects of teaching.'

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Rory du Plessis, Social History of Medicine

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'What is novel in the collection is its invention and ingenuity in trying to reach new audiences outside of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Doctors, artists and educators all feature as authors and participants in the essays, and often essays find experimental ways to explore the terrains of medical education. Uniting these various interlocutors is the consideration of how materials shape knowing. [...] There is a degree to which to know something one must do that something. To know how to steer a boat, one should get as close to the rudder as possible, should feel more closely the way that the water pushes against the instrument as it carves through its surface. One can’t learn at a distance. In Making Sense of Medicine, this collection suggests that we need to reposition ourselves, move our hand closer to the rudder. I am inclined to agree.'

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Max Perry, The Polyphony