JAMES HAMBLIN is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. He was a 2015 Yale University Poynter Fellow in journalism, and his work has been featured by the New York Times, Politico, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, New York, and The Awl. He was a finalist for the 2015 Webby award for Best Web Personality, and Time has named him among the 140 people to follow on Twitter. He’s based in Brooklyn, New York.
“This book answers all the questions you ever had about your
health—plus a whole lot of questions that never occurred to you but
should have. Even if you don’t care about your health you should
read it, because Hamblin is such a delightfully amusing
writer.”
—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Innovators and Steve Jobs
"Reading James Hamblin’s book is like taking a journey through the
vast and uncharted landscape of 'health science.' Fad Diets.
The science of vaccines. The truth (and lies) behind coffee. The
rumblings of the stomach. If you want to understand the strange
workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must
read this illuminating, engaging book."
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Gene and The Emperor of All Maladies
“Jim is the friendly pocket doctor I've always longed to carry
around with me, chirping helpful medical advice into my ear like
‘You can't stop touching your face’ and alerting me to the dangers
of ‘catching a wild cow and convincing it to let itself be milked.’
Without him, I might not have a body at all.”
—Mallory Ortberg, author of Texts From Jane Eyre
“[Hamblin] writes with sarcasm, humor, and a sense of
astonishment…. He does a stellar job with nutrition, covering
supplements, multivitamins, energy drinks, and gluten. He
calls out medical misinformation and marketing myths…. Educational,
entertaining, and a bit eccentric.”
—Booklist
“Fascinating... Challenging what one interviewee calls the
‘scientific misinformation and marketing-based “facts”’ we are
bombarded with daily, this book will be a useful tool for helping
people get in touch with their own bodies.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Charming, engrossing, occasionally heartbreaking, and at times
political… If Our Bodies Could Talk does not set out to be
comprehensive, and yet it feels holistically so—a testament to
Hamblin’s intelligence and humor.”
—Elle
“Underneath the curiosity factor and his nerdy charm, Hamblin
conveys useful information. That’s a win-win for everyone.”
—Success.com
“If Our Bodies Could Talk, they’d want James Hamblin taking
dictation.”
—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair
"Witty"
—The New Yorker
"The book reads sort of like an FAQ section of a how-to manual for
the human body, but it’s much more funny and engaging than any
manual.”
—The Daily Beast
"A humorous, highly narrative, plainly written manual to the
body that covers everything from why we scratch itches to how our
hearts know to beat."
—Missoula Independent
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