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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence

Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence

Weston, Gabriel

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralAnatomy & PhysiologyGeneral Alternative Health

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1567928234
ISBN13: 9781567928235
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.57 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.58
Language: English

A profound and provocative journey through the human body from a surgeon and award-winning writer. Weston's evocative descriptions will change how readers see the body....This captivates.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. She'd forged an unconventional path, first studying humanities and getting an entry-level job in publishing, before a spark of inspiration set her on the path to becoming a doctor.

Medicine teaches us how a body functions, but it doesn't help us navigate the reality of living in one. As Weston became a surgeon, a mother, and ultimately a patient herself, she found herself grappling with the gap between scientific knowledge and unfathomable complexity of human experience.

In this captivating exploration of the body, Weston dissolves the boundaries that usually divide surgeon and patient, pushing beyond the limit of what science has to tell us about who we are and leaning on her roots in the humanities. Focusing on our individual organs, not just under the intense spotlight of the operating theatre, but in the central role they play in the stories of our lives, a fuller and more human picture of our bodies emerges: more fragile, frightening and miraculous than we could have imagined.

Intimate, penetrating and original, Alive is about our bodies and bonds, the richness and brevity of existence, and the thread of mortality that connect us all.

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