THE MUST-READ BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN , SUNDAY TIMES , FINANCIAL TIMES , ECONOMIST , NEW SCIENTIST AND MORE 'Revelatory. Slices through the contradictions.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'So well-written... critically important.
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THE MUST-READ BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN , SUNDAY TIMES , FINANCIAL TIMES , ECONOMIST , NEW SCIENTIST AND MORE 'Revelatory. Slices through the contradictions.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'So well-written... critically important.
A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. After a routine operation Pauline lost all the
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing there was more.' - James McConnachie, Sunday Times In S
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. 'A study of diseases that we sometimes say are 'all in the mind', and an explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.' Tom Whipple, The Times Books of the Year 'To compare a
'Slices through the confusion with grace and compassion. I cannot say good enough things about it.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'A brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis' - GUARDIAN 'Compassionate and bracingly independent thinking&#
***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE TIMES , SUNDAY TIMES , FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN , ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, LONDON STANDARD, NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES 'Revelatory. Slices through the contradictions that had tied me
From a neurologist and award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties , a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients I'm a neurologist. Diagnosis is my bread and butter. So why