The Body Machine - Christiaan Barnard
your health in perspective
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How much do you really know about your body? Do you understand the ways in which it develops and functions? Do you know all the things that can go wrong with it and why they do?(...)
As our scientific knowledge increases it becomes more and more difficult for the average person to keep up and maintain a basic understanding of the most complex piece of machinery we know. The human organism, controlled and co-ordinated by the central nervous system, is a sophisticated sensory apparatus, a self-regulating mobile engine, a self-reproducing computer - a marvellous and in many ways mysterious creation.
'The Body Machine' is a completely current report of everything science knows about the body, from why we need to sleep to what kind of research doctors are doing on the control of chronic pain, from what makes hair turn grey to how human fertility may be significantly improved in the years to come.
Now a team of medical experts, including pathologists, neurologists, geneticists, and others, working under the editorsh...
As our scientific knowledge increases it becomes more and more difficult for the average person to keep up and maintain a basic understanding of the most complex piece of machinery we know. The human organism, controlled and co-ordinated by the central nervous system, is a sophisticated sensory apparatus, a self-regulating mobile engine, a self-reproducing computer - a marvellous and in many ways mysterious creation.
'The Body Machine' is a completely current report of everything science knows about the body, from why we need to sleep to what kind of research doctors are doing on the control of chronic pain, from what makes hair turn grey to how human fertility may be significantly improved in the years to come.
Now a team of medical experts, including pathologists, neurologists, geneticists, and others, working under the editorsh...
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