Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Secrets of the Human Body
    Unavailable
    Secrets of the Human Body
    Unavailable
    Secrets of the Human Body
    Audiobook6 hours

    Secrets of the Human Body

    Written by Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken and Andrew Cohen

    Narrated by Xand van Tulleken

    4.5/5

    ()

    Unavailable in your country

    Unavailable in your country

    About this audiobook

    206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises.

    What makes tears of joy different from tears of sadness?

    Why is a gut feeling so much smarter than you think?

    And why is 90% of you not even human?

    You may think you know the human body – heart, lungs, brain and bones – but your body is full of extraordinary mysteries that science is only just beginning to understand. This book, which accompanies a major new BBC TV programme, will change the way we think about our bodies.

    Doctors are in the business of keeping secrets, but medical confidentiality isn’t just about privacy, shame or discretion. It’s about vulnerability to exploitation. In this ground-breaking new book, the effervescent van Tulleken twins bring their knowledge and charm to the page to reveal just how well our bodies keep secrets from the things that want to exploit it: bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, larger predators and, crucially, other people. They uncover the remarkable stories behind the science we are not meant to know, on matters of life and death.

    Leading us through these revelations are tales of everyday miracles – the human stories that bind every one of us together through the universal stages of life. From the most extreme environments on Earth to the most extreme events, Chris and Xand reveal the incredible abilities every human shares. Arranged around the three themes of learning, survival and growth, this book shows the human body like never before.

    Combining cutting-edge science and technology with stunning photography that gives us a tantalising glimpse beneath our skin, the van Tullekens reveal the secrets that make very ordinary human body … extraordinary.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9780008256579
    Unavailable
    Secrets of the Human Body

    Related to Secrets of the Human Body

    Related audiobooks

    Biology For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Are There Bacteria in Your Brain?

      Nov 29, 2018

      Rosalinda Roberts had gotten used to seeing weird shapes in the brain. Over three decades of looking at brain tissue under an electron microscope, she’d regularly come across “unknown objects”—specks and blobs in her images that weren’t supposed to b

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Puzzle Of A Person

      Oct 29, 2020

      The Puzzle Of A Person
      6 min read

    • Article

      Bodies of Knowledge

      Aug 27, 2021

      Bodies of Knowledge
      19 min read

    • Article

      Secrets Of The Dead

      Aug 7, 2020

      Secrets Of The Dead
      7 min read

    • Article

      Destroying An Idea Is A Path To Progress

      Aug 10, 2023

      Paul Nurse is a geneticist whose own heredity was entirely hidden from him until fairly recently, when he was forced to take a closer look at his birth certificate. There he uncovered a long-held family secret about his identity. He finds this irony

      4 min read

    • Article

      Bill Bryson's Latest Is A Different Kind Of Journey — Into 'The Body'

      Oct 14, 2019

      Bryson is beloved for his travel writing, but in his new book he's undertaking an interior journey, looking at everything from medical oddities to the amazing way your body fights off most cancers.

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Spiritual Consciousness of Christof Koch

      Oct 13, 2021

      Consciousness is a thriving industry. It’s not just the meditation retreats and ayahuasca shamans. Or the conferences with a heady mix of philosophers, quantum physicists, and Buddhist monks. Consciousness is a buzzing business in neuroscience labs a

      16 min read

    • Article

      Book One: Notes Of Origin

      Feb 28, 2023

      Book One: Notes Of Origin
      14 min read

    • Article

      Donating Bodies

      Sep 5, 2022

      Donating Bodies
      4 min read

    • Article

      I Am Your uterus

      Jul 11, 2022

      I figure it’s my turn to speak. I do have a right to speak for myself, right? Apparently not everyone thinks so. Forgive me for being grumpy: I have a long history of being misunderstood. By the Greeks, for instance. To them, I was the hystera, and H

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Dividual

      Aug 10, 2021

      The first dividual I saw I was six, holding my uncle’s hand in immigrations. Ahead of us was a group of seven men and women, blue masks covering their heads and shoulders. They carried between them a pale violet tree trunk, its roots bundled in a bur

      22 min read

    • Article

      “Magic Is A Really Important Strand Of What It Means To Be Human”

      Jul 9, 2020

      Ellie Cawthorne: Your new book surveys a vast array of magical beliefs throughout human history. How do you define magic? Chris Gosden: My definition of magic is a human openness to the universe. And a universe’s openness to people. Let me give you

      9 min read

    • Article

      A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story

      Sep 13, 2018

      The morgue was inside Brooks Brothers. I was standing at the corner of Church and Dey, right next to the rubble of the World Trade Center, when a policeman shouted that doctors were needed at the menswear emporium inside the building at One Liberty P

      14 min read

    • Article

      Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

      Oct 28, 2022

      Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
      2 min read

    • Article

      Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

      Oct 29, 2022

      Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Secrets of the Human Body

    4.5/5

    28 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Amazing book based on such detailed research into human’s body. Very informative I’m sure I’ll get back to this book later on.