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Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum de Gavin Francis

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum

Autor Gavin Francis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2016
"Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart."
--Wall Street Journal

We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone and muscle, neurons and synapses. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected to well-being, or the why the foot holds the key to our humanity? InAdventures in Human Being, award-winning author Gavin Francis leads readers on a journey into 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 Beingis a meditation on what it means to be human. Poetic, eloquent, and profoundly perceptive, this book will transform the way you view your body.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780465096824
ISBN-10: 0465096824
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: B&W illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 141 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:First Edition, First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books

Notă biografică

Gavin Francisis a physician and the author ofTrue North: Travels in Arctic EuropeandEmpire Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Costa Prize, and was named a best book of the year byThe Economistand theFinancial Times. A regular contributor to theLondon Review of Books,theGuardian, and theNew York Review of Books, Francis lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Recenzii

The Independent(UK) -- Best Summer Reads
2015 Saltire Literary Award -- Non-Fiction Book of the Year

"Engaging and edifying."
—New York Review of Books
"A sober and beautiful book about the landscape of the human body."
—Hilary Mantel
"It is grand, eloquent stuff, occasionally humorous,frequently moving, and invariably informative. In other hands,Adventures inHuman Beingmight well have become cluttered with cliché, detail orsentimentality but Francis has a lightness of touch that helps him avoid thesepitfalls. His use of quotes is sparing but erudite and his lack ofself-importance--often a failing in his profession--is welcome. The endresult is a thoroughly entertaining, provocative work."—The Guardian
"ThatAdventures in Human Beingis an astonishing,moving and enchanting book can be explained in part by Francis's unique rangeof experience, his erudition and his enthusiasm."—New Statesman
"[Francis] offers an unusually upbeat medicalperspective.... His essays form a kind of anatomical atlas in which Francisproceeds from head to toe, stopping along the way to explore the lungs,genitalia, liver, and other organs."—Boston Globe
"[A] brilliantly original and highly engaging bookthat takes you on a journey that is both familiar and unfamiliar, a book thatmarries both the physical and metaphysical with such imaginative wit andeloquence."—The Independent(UK)
"Clever, strangely beautiful.... The style is crisp andfast and the human tales irresistible."—The Times(London)
"[Francis] is a fine, subtle and observant writer... this is an illuminating and arresting book."—Herald Scotland

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We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot.

Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human.

Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance, this book will transform the way you think about being alive, whether in sickness or in health.

Published in association with the Wellcome Collection.

WELLCOME COLLECTION is the free museum and library for the incurably curious. It explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. It is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas thrive