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Veterinary medicine note! become book A&M professor publishes text By DEEDEE DAMON Reporter When Michael Jay Shively, a doc tor of veterinary medicine, started teaching applied anatomy at Texas A&M in 19/8, he had no idea that his class notes would evolve into the most concise text available on basic and comparative anatomy. “About three years ago, I finally decided that (my notes) looked good enough that 1 ought to polish them up and see if I could get them pub lished,” Shively said. “I took (the col lection of notes) to A&M press at — that time. They said it looked like it was publishable and salable material, ■ so I began working on polishing it up.” OpOi spires hit more of a to gette he keeps F po, he said. ” Howard s gentlemen l'—crar 1 jury reallf® iow becaiw ig a schola® and _ ugh,” dice aboui! Shively compiled a rough draft of his textbook, “The Anatomic Basis _ of Veterinary Practice,” and used it in his class in 1983. Students from other schools also bought the book. said. “Some vdumes went to Cor nell, some wed to California and a few went to Cdorado State.” Shively ha since revised his book and publishid “Basic, Comparative, and Clinica Veterinary Anatomy.” His book irthe only text in existence that cover domestic mammals, birds and laboatory animals in one vol- Veteinary students do not have assigned textbooks and “have had their hicks to the wall in trying to find books, particularly for an ap plied anatomy course,” Shively said. Mod of the books available cover only one species and contain more information than the student needs, Shhely said. Such books cost about $6for $70. “You multiply this times five or six snecies we have to deal with in veter- sold over 100 of (the books) to students at Ohio State University, 'Voth ofand a few volumes to students at va- > — 1 — ” Shively rious other universities,’ iiary medicine and the student can fasily spend $500 or $600, and be paying a lot for information that he really doesn’t need,” Shively said. “Some of the texts that cover all of the domestic animals in one volume are very poorly done. They contain a lot of statements that are lies or half truths. “1 think there are 23 different chapters in this book. And, what I did, at various stages along the way, was get the chapters updated and send them out to different people to review. What this amounted to was a lot of internal review. The people that were doing the reviewing were radiologists, surgeons, internal med icine men and so forth.” Shively also asked for and re ceived input about his book from veterinary students. “I laid it out for them exactly what I wanted,” Shively said. “I told them I wanted to know everything from typographical errors to things that are in (the book) that (they) don’t think should be, or things that aren’t in it that (they) think should be in cluded and things that are in (the book) that they don’t think are true based on their knowledge to this point. “So I got a lot of that kind of feed back from the students all the way through. As a consequence, I think they have really helped me improve the quality of the total manuscript.” Shively’s book is illustrated with more than 140 drawings done by Sharon Ashby. Ashby is a freelance medical illustrator, working in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Shively said. “She used to work here in the de partment of veterinary anatomy as a graduate student,” Shively said. “We worked quite closely with her; we had other people look at her illustra tions and if something wasn’t quite right, we’d modify it.” Shively’s two books on veterinary anatomy have not been his only liter ary accomplishments. Since 1977 he has been the author of the “Tell Me Why” column in “Dog Fancy” mag azine. He also has written two other articles for “Dog Fancy” and one for “Cat Fancy.” In addition, Shively has had 54 scientific publications and delivered a total of 26 presentations at national and international meetings. Shively received his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Purdue University in 1975. He also received a doctor of veterinary medicine and a master of science degree from Pur due. Munch, munch, munch ■■■ The munchies are after you. 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