Kak rabotaet nashe telo i kak nauka obyasnyaet ego udivitelnye sposobnosti? Pochemu serdtse betsya, zheludok perevarivaet, mozg oshibaetsya, a bakterii i virusy vedut sebya kak strategi na pole boya? Doktor meditsiny i hirurg Takehito Yamamoto predlagaet intellektualnoe puteshestvie po chelovecheskomu telu - ot pyatok do makushki - s faktami, kotorym vy udivites, dazhe esli davno interesuetes naukoy. Eta kniga ne pro shkolnuyu biologiyu: v ney raskryvaetsya rabota organov, evolyutsionnye dogadki, nauchnye zabluzhdeniya, istoricheskie otkrytiya, meditsinskie kazusy i ponyatnye obyasneniya slozhnyh protsessov, kotorye proishodyat v nas kazhdyy den.
