Adventures in human being: a grand tour from the cranium to the calcaneum

A note on confidentiality

Prologue

Brain. Neurosurgery of the soul ; Seizures, sanctity & psychiatry

Head. Eye : a renaissance of vision ; Face : beautiful palsy ; Inner ear : voodoo & vertigo

Chest. Lung : The breath of life ; Heart : on seagull murmurs, ebb & flow ; Breast : two views on healing

Upper limb. Shoulder : arms & armor ; Wrist & hand : punched, cut & crucified

Abdomen. Kidney : the ultimate gift ; Liver : a fairy-tale ending ; Large bowel & rectum : a magnificent work of art

Pelvis. Genitalia : of making babies ; Womb : thresholds of life & death ; Afterbirth : eat it, burn it, bury it under a tree

Lower limb. Hip : Jacob & the angel ; Feet & toes : footsteps in the basement

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes on sources

List of images

Index.