Adventures in Human Being

Résumé du livre

Gavin Francis has worked as a pediatrician, a surgeon, an ER specialist, a trainee neurosurgeon, and even an expedition medic in the Arctic and Antarctic. He now lives with his family in Edinburgh, Scotland, and works as a family physician. Before this book, Francis authored two travelogues about his experiences as an expedition medic – True North: Travels in Arctic Europe and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins. The latter book won the Scottish Book of the Year Award for 2013.

There is no clear champion in the search for the organ that best displays our humanity. Some organs on our list distinguish us from other animals, such as the mind and the visage, which are exclusively developed in humans. Other organs make the list because they symbolize human traits, like the heart, the afterbirth, and the kidney, which symbolize life, culture, and affection respectively. Still others – like the lower limb – are on the list because, lacking them, we would never have evolved into the beings that we are.

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