Jonathan Reisman, M.D., is a doctor of internal medicine and pediatrics who has practiced medicine in the world's most remote places - in the Arctic and Antarctica, at high-altitude in Nepal and in Kolkata's urban slums. He speaks Spanish and Russian and heads a non-profit to improve healthcare and education in India. Jonathan's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, and the Washington Post. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children.
A fascinating, lyrical book . . . Reisman's experiences in other
cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he
thinks about the body and medicine - the rivers and tributaries,
the flowing and unclogging, the top-down organisation of the brain
- is extraordinary!
*Mary Roach, author of STIFF*
A magnificent travelogue through the human body by a truly intrepid
explorer. A genuine 'must' for anyone who is even remotely curious
about their own body and how it works. I really loved it.
*Professor Sue Black, author of WRITTEN IN BONE and ALL THAT
REMAINS*
An intelligent, innovative, eclectic and accessible book in which
Reisman views the human body with a remarkable degree of lateral
thinking. Sometimes funny, often gruesome but always entertaining
and educational.
*Samer Nashef, author of THE ANGINA MONOLOGUES*
The author's literary approach to this complicated subject proved
excellent bedside material. [Reisman] comes across as a generous
and thoughtful physician . . . [who can] make sense out of it
all.
*Wall Street Journal*
If you are fascinated by the human body and how it works, or you
are thinking about studying medicine, or you are just a curious
person you will find this book a joy to read . . . This is a great
and easy read which I heartily (excuse the pun) recommend.
*Professor Alex Rodgers, author of THE DEEP*
Terrific, memorable, original, and full of information that informs
one's understanding not only of the body but what has stopped us
from knowing more. There is palpable joy at learning in Reisman's
writing and readers will know him as an individual whose humility
and empathy are as impressive as his adventurous, travel-hungry
spirit.
*Kenneth S. Brecher, cultural anthropologist and author of TOO SAD
TO SING*
Through his acute and extensive observations of the seen world of
nature and human nature, Reisman illuminates the analogous workings
of our unseen bodies. An Alexander von Humboldt of the human body,
Dr. Reisman's comparisons give us an ingenious perspective from
which to understand the ways in which our internal organs function
alone and together. I highly recommend this book to everyone
interested in understanding and appreciating the marvels of the
human body.
*Warren Zapol. M.D., professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical
School, Antarctic researcher, and inventor*
THE UNSEEN BODY is an elegant, elegiac, and deeply enjoyable
meander through human anatomy, by way of brain-tanned buckskin,
blood as the last salty remnant of life's oceanic origins, and the
World Testicle Cooking Championships. The images Reisman conjures
will linger long after you've devoured his delightful prose.
*Nicola Twilley, co-author of UNTIL PROVEN SAFE and co-host of
GASTROPOD podcast*
A remarkable travel narrative that documents the author's trip
through a seemingly familiar place, the human body, and with a
blend of science and personal experience renders that place both
strange and fascinating, so much so that the reader will feel not
only delighted, but also proud to be a lifelong inhabitant of
it.
*Lawrence Millman, award-winning author of FUNGIPEDIA*
Quirky, never-dull popular science
*Kirkus Reviews*
An engaging book likely to pique the curiosity of readers
interested in a wide range of medical conditions or naturalistic
medicine
*Library Journal*
Dr Reisman engagingly relates provocative stories for the fifteen
body parts uncovered in this treatise, and goads the reader to
re-evaluate their perception of the body
*City Book Review*
Physician and naturalist Reisman offers a 'behind-the-scenes look
at life itself' via an odyssey through the human body . . . deep
curiosity driv[es] his narrative
*Publishers Weekly*
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