Kyle Davies WW Norton & Company, 2017, HB, 304pp, £14.45, 978-0393712056
Current medical school teaching covers a great deal about hardware body, and pathology. Little is taught about software being, or the mammal’s autonomic response to stressors.
The Intelligent Body acknowledges people as spiritual beings having a human experience, reminds us about Selye’s general adaptation syndrome (how mammalian bodies cope with stress), and our individual ‘stress buckets’ — which can only contain so much before overflowing. Davies looks at how emotions arise, …