Gavin Francis

Recovery

The Lost Art of Convalescence

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Produktbeschreibung

"First published in Great Britain by Profile Books and Wellcome Collection 2022. Published in Penguin Books 2023"--Title page verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 182mm x 132mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780143137917
• ISBN-10: 0143137913
• Artikelnr.: 67007799

Autorenporträt

Gavin Francis is a general physician with more than 30 years of training and practice in medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is also an award-winning writer and a contributor to the Guardian, Times, New York Review of Books, Granta, and the London Review of Books. He's authored eight books, including Empire Antarctica, Adventures in Human Being, and Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change, which was a book of the year in the Sunday Times. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Rezensionen

Wise and thoughtful ... this book is a practical guide to recovery from illness as well as a meditation on the practice of medicine ... I cannot think of anybody - patient or doctor - who will not be helped by reading this short and profound book Henry Marsh New Statesman