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Recovery : the lost art of convalescence / Gavin Francis.

by Francis, Gavin.

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Penguin Life, 2023.

617.03 F818r 2023

Sick -- Rehabilitation.

Healing -- Attitudes.

9780143137917 (hc.)

Alternate title:

[Art of convalescence]

[Convalescence]

xii, 125 p. ; 19 cm.

"A Penguin Life Book"--Copyright page.

"First published in Great Britain by Profile Books and Wellcome Collection 2022. Published in Penguin Books 2023"--Copyright page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-125).

Rejecting the idea that healing is passive the book offers tools and wisdom for convalescence, and shows how tending to our bodies, environments, and perspectives can help us move through the landscape of illness and come out the other side: whole.

Gavin Francis is a general physician with more than 30 years of training and practice in medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is also an award-winning writer and a contributor to the Guardian, Times, New York Review of Books, Granta, and the London Review of Books. He’s authored eight books, including Empire Antarctica, Adventures in Human Being, and Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change, which was a book of the year in the Sunday Times. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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