A surgeon’s journey through the body of a person. Francis G.

What do we know about our body? For many of us, it remains an unknown territory, a mystery of bones and muscles, neurons and synapses. Gavin Francis invites us on a journey through the human body, talking about his inner work and the miracles that occur in him. Based on his experience of a surgeon and a family doctor, he combines interesting clinical cases with episodes from the history of medicine, philosophy and literature in order to describe the body in illness and in health, in life and death brighter than we can imagine.

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