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A review by anetq
Adventures in Human Being by Gavin Francis
4.0
Almost a travel book of the human body - and that is a fascinating landscape to watch in deed! As we travel from head to toe Dr Francis also gives us bits of literature, art, myths and traditional beliefs about the limb or organ, as well as a look into medical history especially around Edinburgh University.
The book is as the title says an adventurous journey through the human body, and it is both an entertaining and educational trip: From electro chok therapy actually doing good these days for the severely depressed, over life and death dispersed through the body and organs, to the feet that carry us around: who knew Da Vinci dissected a bears foot, when he couldn't get his paws on a human foot? (Bears can walk upright like humans, and have the same stride of heel to front foot, so he was as always being clever!
Sometimes the literary windings get a bit long, I for one would have preferred a little more insight into the muscle complex of the hip over the differnet Jewish interpretations and translational disputes about Jacob's hip injury from fighting with an angel. But apart from that a great read!
The book is as the title says an adventurous journey through the human body, and it is both an entertaining and educational trip: From electro chok therapy actually doing good these days for the severely depressed, over life and death dispersed through the body and organs, to the feet that carry us around: who knew Da Vinci dissected a bears foot, when he couldn't get his paws on a human foot? (Bears can walk upright like humans, and have the same stride of heel to front foot, so he was as always being clever!
Sometimes the literary windings get a bit long, I for one would have preferred a little more insight into the muscle complex of the hip over the differnet Jewish interpretations and translational disputes about Jacob's hip injury from fighting with an angel. But apart from that a great read!