num_pages: 272
description: We assume we know our bodies intimately but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain how the heart is connected to wellbeing or the why the foot carries the key to our humanity? In Adventures in Human Being award-winning author Gavin Francis leads readers on a journey into the hidden pathways of the human body offering a guide to its inner workings and a celebration of its marvels.Drawing on his experiences as a surgeon ER specialist and family physician Francis blends stories from the clinic with episodes from medical history philosophy and literature to describe the body in sickness and in health in living and in dying. At its heart Adventures in Human Being is a meditation on what it means to be human. Poetic eloquent and profoundly perceptive this book will transform the way you view your body.
language: English
title: Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
publisher: Basic Books