Contents

A note on confidentiality

Prologue

Brain

  1. Neurosurgery of the Soul

  2. Seizures, Sanctity & Psychiatry

Head

  3. Eye: A Renaissance of Vision

  4. Face: Beautiful Palsy

  5. Inner Ear: Voodoo & Vertigo

Chest

  6. Lung: The Breath of Life

  7. Heart: On Seagull Murmurs, Ebb & Flow

  8. Breast: Two Views on Healing

Upper Limb

  9. Shoulder: Arms & Armour

10. Wrist & Hand: Punched, Cut & Crucified

Abdomen

11. Kidney: The Ultimate Gift

12. Liver: A Fairy-Tale Ending

13. Large Bowel & Rectum: A Magnificent Work of Art

Pelvis

14. Genitalia: Of Making Babies

15. Womb: Threshold of Life & Death

16. Afterbirth: Eat it, Burn it, Bury it under a Tree

Lower Limb

17. Hip: Jacob & the Angel

18. Feet & Toes: Footsteps in the Basement

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes on Sources

List of Images

Index