Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465079687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not Enough On Anatomy and Medical Practice, Too Much on Other Stuff I was disappointed in this book, given its fascinating topic and the excellent reviews that it received. For me, the most positive thing about the book were the stories about the writer's interactions with his patients -- deeply human, and often deeply moving. I wish that there had been of this -- showing how medic. Stimulated me to review Anatomy, Physiology, and clinical situations. One physician's approach to continuing academic medicine in his practice. These days in the US, how many of us physicians have time or inclination to be so curious and thoughtful, never mind showing empathy for our patinients?. I higthly recommend it. Very interesting book well written with many explanations and details who many people ignore including myself . I higthly recommend it.
There is much to astonish in his travel through the most intimate landscape of all.’”Sunday Express (UK)Francis jumps nimbly between anatomy, history, and personal experience in a way that makes the book both highly informative and compulsively readable. It's a spellbinding view.”Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife and The Human AgeA sober and beautiful book about the landscape of the human body: thought-provoking and eloquent.”Hilary MantelWonderful, subtle, unpretentious. Francis does it. Reading it, you feel better.”John Berger, author of Ways o
A veteran of the war in Iraq suffers a shoulder injury that Homer first described three millennia ago in the Iliad. 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. And when a gardener pricks her finger on a dirty rose thorn, her case of bacterial blood poisoning brings to mind the comatose sleeping beauties in the fairy tales we learn as children.At its heart, Adventures in Human Being is a meditation on what it means to be human. 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? 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 an