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Recovery

Gavin Francis

When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the periphery of our lives - until we are forced to contend with what they really mean.

Here, GP and writer Gavin Francis explores how - and why - we get better, revealing the many shapes recovery takes, its shifting history and the frequent failure of our modern lives to make adequate space for it.

Characterised by Francis's beautiful prose and his view of medicine as 'the alliance of science and kindness', Recovery is a book about a journey that most of us never intend to make. Along the way, he unfolds a story of hope, transformation, and the everyday miracle of healing.

  • Classification : Mind, Body & Spirit
  • Pub Date : JAN 13, 2022
  • Imprint : Wellcome Collection
  • Page Extent : 144
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781800810488
  • Price : INR 399
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Gavin Francis

Gavin Francis is a GP and the author of True North and Empire Antarctica: Ice Silence and Emperor Penguins which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize. He also writes for the Guardian the Times London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children. Find him on Twitter @gavinfranc and online at www.gavinfrancis.com.

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome it connects science medicine life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions events and books explore a diverse range of subjects including consciousness forensic medicine emotions sexology identity and death. wellcomecollection.org

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