The Body Machine - Christiaan Barnard

The Body Machine - Christiaan Barnard

How much do you really know about your body? Do you understand the ways in which it developes and functions? Do you know all the things that can go wrong with it and why they do? Have you the most up-to-date information on medical treatments for bodies not working as they should?

As scientific knowledge increases it becomes more difficult for the average person to keep up and maintain a basic understanding of the most complex piece of machinery we know. The human organism, controlled and co-ordinated by the central nervous system, is a sophisticated sensory apparatus, a self-regulating mobile engine, a self-reproducing computer -  a marvellous and in many ways mysterious creation. The Body Machine is a completely current report of everything science knows about the body, from why we need sleep to what kind of research doctors are doing on the control of chronic pain, from what makes hair turn grey to how human fertility may be significantly improved in the years to come.