- Imprint: Doubleday
- ISBN: 9780857527691
- Length: 560 pages
- Dimensions: 256mm x 43mm x 203mm
- Weight: 1960g
- Price: £35.00
The Body Illustrated
A Guide for Occupants
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The Body Illustrated is a highly visual illustrated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling book The Body, his exploration of how the human body works. Featuring hundreds of photographs and illustrations, this edition brings a visual dimension to Bryson’s wide-ranging account of our physical and neurological make-up.
About the book
How much do we really know about the body we spend our entire lives in?
Bryson moves across the body and its systems, drawing together facts, scientific research and stories from the history of medicine. Along the way, he explores everything from the brain, sleep and the senses to microbes, digestion, pain, disease and the body's capacity to heal itself.
Historical discoveries and the scientists and doctors behind them sit alongside explanations of anatomy and physiology, revealing both how our understanding of the body has developed and how much remains unknown. This illustrated edition of The Body adds hundreds of photographs and illustrations to Bryson’s original exploration of the subject.
Comparable books
If you're looking for books similar to The Body Illustrated, these books also explore human anatomy, health and our understanding of the body for a general readership, with approaches ranging from evolutionary history to medicine and cultural history.
- Topics covered: Anatomy; biology; medicine; scientific discovery; medical history
- Knowledge level: General reader; no specialist science knowledge required
About the book
How much do we really know about the body we spend our entire lives in?
Bryson moves across the body and its systems, drawing together facts, scientific research and stories from the history of medicine. Along the way, he explores everything from the brain, sleep and the senses to microbes, digestion, pain, disease and the body's capacity to heal itself.
Historical discoveries and the scientists and doctors behind them sit alongside explanations of anatomy and physiology, revealing both how our understanding of the body has developed and how much remains unknown. This illustrated edition of The Body adds hundreds of photographs and illustrations to Bryson’s original exploration of the subject.
Comparable books
If you're looking for books similar to The Body Illustrated, these books also explore human anatomy, health and our understanding of the body for a general readership, with approaches ranging from evolutionary history to medicine and cultural history.
- The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman: Like Bryson, Lieberman makes complex biological science accessible to the general reader, but uses human evolutionary history as the organising framework for understanding why our bodies are the way they are and how that history affects modern health.
- Alive by Gabriel Weston: Another accessible exploration of the human body for non-specialists, combining medicine, science and human experience. Weston's perspective is more explicitly medical and personal, while Bryson ranges more broadly across anatomy, biology, history and scientific discovery.
- The Face by Fay Bound Alberti: Shares Bryson's multidisciplinary approach, using anatomy as a starting point for exploring science, medicine, history and culture. Its focus is considerably narrower, concentrating specifically on the human face rather than the body as a whole.
